
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 



€liap.^JnqCopyright No. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



THE 



Ancient of Days Renewed; 



OR THE 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

FOUND TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN 
1,826 YEARS AGO 

BY FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, 



WHICH IS CONFIRMED BY THE APOCRYPHA, THE APOCRYPHAL 

NEW TESTAMENT, THE BOOK OF ENOCH, THE BOOK 

OF JASHER, AND SOME SACRED BOOKS THAT 

HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RECKONED 

AMONG THE PROFANE. 



BY 

HENRY S. WILLIAMS. 




CHICAGO 

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Copyright, rSgy, by 
Henry S. Williams, Raymond, Cal. 






INTRODUCTION. 

The Scriptures are written in numerals, miracles, sym- 
bols, orders, names, threatenings, commandments, prom- 
ises, parables and many wonderful ceremonials, all of 
which go to make a mystery of mysteries, unparalleled by 
anything that ever came before the mind of man, all of 
which are hieroglyphics for man to interpret the Scrip- 
tures, as the advancement of man is the progression of 
the literal creation, the proofs of which rest upon physical 
science ; in this there is no mistake, as mathematics cannot 
be disputed. 

We find in the prophecies many dates, epochs, intervals 
and numbers, all of which have a mathematical meaning, 
the proof of which has been accumulating every hour 
since the birth of Christ, which was the creation of all 
things; also all time that the Scriptures furnish a correct 
chronological history, as there is no correct chronology 
from the supposed six days' creation to the birth of 
Christ; but all very well know that we have a correct 
literal chronology of 1,897 years to the present time of 
our era. Yet we are not positive that those 1,897 years 
began at the exact time when Christ was born, hence 
there is a variation of about three years in the numerical 
calculations of the preceding volume. These variations 
can only be removed by establishing the time when 
Christ was born, yet there is a correct chronology in the 
Scriptures of the same interval since the birth of Christ 
which is symbolized by intervals, numerals, ceremonials, 
parables and miracles, supposed by all theology to belong 
to the six days' creation, all of which are not literal, but 
symbolize literal chronology and literal events since the 
literal creation, which began at the exact time when 
Christ was born, and as there is no proof that this present 
Christian era began at the exact time of the birth of 



4 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Christ, hence our chronology varies, as the Christian 
era does not harmonize with the birth of Christ, which 
unharmony is part of the veils upon the Scriptures. The 
exact date of the birth of Christ is important to our chron- 
ology, as the literal creation will continue every hour 
from that time until the end of the six ages, which ages 
Josephus says are to be shortened lest no flesh would be 
saved. At the end of the six ages comes the political 
and financial resurrection and transfiguration. 

The history of the United States is found to have been 
written 1,826 years ago by Flavins Josephus, and in that 
part of his works where he treats of his own family and 
of the actions of his own life proves to be the history and 
actions of our United States Treasury Department. 

In the beginning was the word, hence the word was 
the beginning; that word was put upon the pages of 
prophecy, and it has been a constitution, which has 
created all things enumerated in the six days- — ages of 
creation even the Heaven and Earth and the things that 
are there and therein created. Present theology teaches 
that the word was first given to the Jews, which is an 
error, because the scattered pages of Scriptures first cre- 
ated ancient Israel our prototype; then after Israel in the 
same manner that all religious creeds have been created 
came the creation of the religion, church and nation of 
the ancient Jews, which was a prototype of our present 
monetary system, which will be destroyed at the end of 
the exact number of years after A. D. 1826 that the 
ancient Jewish temple was destroyed after the birth of 
Jesus Christ. 

My constructure lacks workmanship, but is foimded 
upon allegorical Scriptural prophecies, which are the rock 
of ages. When the giants behold the location, they will 
build a new temple, great and high, upon the same foun- 
dation; then my structure, crude and slender, will be 
remembered as gossamer, harbinger of the storm, which 
shattered the veils over the face of prophecy, and swept 
staggering theology of nineteen centuries into the past. 

HENRY S. WILLIAMS, 

Raymond, Cal. 



Introduction 3 

God tiie Universe and the Scriptures Are Equally Incompre- 
hensible 13 

The Earth and World in Prophecy Does Not Mean the Globe. 18 
The Bible Suppressed in France in 1793, and Reinstated in Just 

Three and One-half Years Afterwards 19 

The Municipality of Paris, France, Express Their Determina- 
tion to Dethrone the King of Heaven 21 

The Earth Swallowed Up; the Serpent's Flood 22 

Fourteenth Amendment 23 

Fifteenth Amendment 24 

The Six Shortened Ages 25 

The Famous Codes of Justinian 26 

Some Numerical Prophecies of Jossphus 27 

The Symbolic Numbers of 18 and 300 : 28 

Bible Translated Into Greek, 277 B. C 29 

The Antitypical 300 Children of Israel 30 

Parliament of Edward I., 1306 A. D 31 

Cromwell Refuses a Crown 32 

Wandered in the Wilderness from 1736 to 1776 23 

The Democracy of Moses 35 

The Dragon Cast Out of the United S ates 36 

Parliamentarian Democracy of Cromwell in 1656 38 

Rahab's House Was on the Walls of Monarchy 39 

Abraham Circumcised 318 Men 40 

Home Missionary Society in 1826 41 

Christ Came in the Ark or Tabernacle of a Body 42 • 

Table from Adam to the Flood 43 

Table of 5,879 Years 46 

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6 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Before Her Pains Came She Was Delivered of a Man Child. . 47 
One Hundred Million Stood Before the Ancient of Days to Be 

Judged 49 

The Ancient of Days Had 3,000,000 Servants 50 

A Throne of Firey Flames, with Wheels of Burning Fire 51 

The Son of Man Brought a Sword 52 

The One Like Unto a Son of Man 53 

The Mystery of Three Letters 54 

He Came Like a Thief in the Night 55 

Washington's Historic Sword 56 

From an Unknown Poet 59 

Fire Thrown Into the Golden Window 60 

Linen Cloth Left in the Senate 62 

The Symbols of Creation 67 

The Affliction of Job 70 

Christ Transfigured on a High Mountain 71 

Symbolic Creation of Six Ages 74 

Josephus Shortens the Years 77 

2656 (1556) — 1 100, Shortening the Ages 78 

All Europe Is of One Language (one design) 78 

Europe Leaves Ofif to Build the City and Tower 80 

A World-Wide Signal 82 

A Republic Is the Only Salvation 83 

The Sun and Moon Stood Still 84 

The "Six and Thirty M'oments 86 

Josephus Symbolizes the United States 87 

Josephus and Seventy-nine National Banks Saved by Ship of 

Cyrene in 1866 89 

Slavery in the United States 90 

Riddles 94 

The Eleven Hundred Pieces of Silver 95 

Samson Slew More Dead at His Own Death than He Slew in 

His Life 96 

Absurdity of the Jews Being Restored 97 

The Mingled Blood of Israel 100 

The Ships of Tarshish .' loi 

The Waiting Isles 103 



INDEX. 7 

A Tent that Shall Not Be Removed io8 

Our Gates Shall Be Continually Open 109 

Joseph Shall Have Portions iii 

The Last Record of the Jews 113 

Josephus Was an American Hislorian 114 

The Creation of the Symbolic Six Ages 115 

Tables of the Antediluvian Patriarchs 117 

The Nephilim Were in the Earth 118 

The Age of Man to Be 120 Years 119 

For with Him One Day is 1,000 Years 120 

Marriage of Adam and Eve 121 

Beasts Symbolize Fanatical Nations 123 

The Abomination of Desolation 124 

Empire of Alexander the Great 125 

The Colonial Stamp Act 126 

The Stamp Act Was 145 Years After 1620 127 

King Alexander to His Brother Jonathan 129 

Holland and United States Make a Treaty 130 

Simon, Judas and John 132 

Washington, Jefferson and Adams 133 

Washington Made a Marshal of France 135 

The People's Booths 135 

Liberia and the Pyramids 137 

An Altar and a Pillar in Egypt 140 

The Temple of Dendera in Egypt 141 

The Great Pyramid 143 

Weights and Measurements of Our Coins 146 

Entrance to the Grand Chamber 147 

The Thirty-six Inch Stone Step 148 

The Fiftieth and Twenty-fifth Courses of Masonry 149 

The Alkalescency of the Queen's Chamber 149 

The Niche of Five Sections 150 

The Parliament of Cromwell 152 

Floods of Many Nations 154 

Deluge of Europe 157 

Noah Will Dwell in the Plain of Shinar 159 

The Seventh Generation After Seth 160 



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The Life of Man Becomes Shorter i6i 

The Flood Began in 1656 A. D 162 

English National Debt $3,500,000,000 i6| 

Ark Resting in Armenia , 165 

The Nakedness of Noah 168 

Where the Children of Japheth Settled 169 

The Chaldean Zodiacal Cycles 170 

The Easter Island 171 

Delug? Legends of America 172 

Toltec Legend of the Flood 173 

The Mandan Indians' Flood 174 

Many Tribes Have Flood Traditions 175 

Heaven Symbolizes the United States 177 

The Son of Man 179 

John Saw Animals in Heaven i8r 

The- Twenty-four Elders 183 

One Hundred and Twenty Years of Idol Worship 184 

King of Israel Will Be Cut Off 185 

Cast Their Silver in the Streets 188 

Storehouses Suddenly Found Empty 189 

Mingled Blood of Israel 190 

Rahab and All Her Family 191 

Money Changers Cast Out 192 

Mountain Established on the Mountains 193 

When Is the Last Days? 194 

Great Voices in Heaven 195 

Seventh Agency Upon the Air 196 

Voice from the Throne Saying, It Is Done 197 

Methodist Churches of America 198 

Tobias and His Seven Sons ?-. 203 

From of Old Like a Pool of Water 204 

Preface of Flavius Josephus 206 

"But Because Almost All Our Constitution Depends on the 

Wisdom of Moses, Our Legislator" 208 

The Fifty-sixth Year of Josephus' Life 210 

The Life of Flavius Josephus 212 

Common Words Used by the Masses of the American People. 213 



INDEX. 9 

Judith Destroys Holofernes 214 

Garrisons Set in the High Cities 222 

Achior's Description of the United States 225 

The Narrow Passages of the River Euphrates 227 

The Silver Lamps 228 

Smote Twice Upon His Neck 229 

Camp of Holofernes in 1895 230 

Noah Is Drunken and Naked 231 

A Mark Put Upon the Vagabond 232 

Slime and Brick 233 

Confound the Language of Europe 234 

The Agencies in Mid-Heaven 235 

Fallen Is Babylon the Great 236 

The Banquet of Servants 237 

Judith's Introduction to Holofernes 238 

Billions of Supposed Wealth 239 

Starving Millions of India 240 

The Earth Shall Stagger 241 

Bagoas, the Eunuch 242 

The United States Was of Age in i8p6 243 

Arouse Noah from His Wine 244 

Horrible Vision Appearing in the East 245 

No Chronology Before Christ 246 

Jesus Christ Was the Creation 247 

The Aprons of Fig- Leaves 248 

Skins of Beasts for Clothing 249 

Table of the Antediluvian Patriarchs 250 

Second Table of the Antediluvian Patriarchs 251 

The Creation Represented by Symbols .252 

The Grand Embarkation 253 

Sold, Yet There Was No One to Buy 254 

Moses Was Born in 1656 A. D 255 

Rahab the Harlot 256 

Christ .Was of the Lineage of Rahab 257 

The Temple Set on Fire July 27th, 1896 258 

God Repents that He Created Nations in Europe 259 

Political Europe Will Pass Away 260 



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The Sun and the Moon .261 

Every Nation of Europe Afraid 262 

The Ark Covenant Alliances of Europe 263 

Plagues Come Upon the Whole Earth 264 

Sword Unto the Belly 265 

Smoke and Dust Go Up Unto the Heavens 266 

The Foreigner; Contracted Currency 267 

He Shall Besiege Thee in All Thy Gates 268 

Nothing Left Him in the Siege 269 

Cain the European Vagabond 270 

Destroy the Whole Race of Mankind 271 

The United States Died in 1896 272 

Forty Years in the American Wilderness 273 

The First and Second Adam 274 

The Object of Christ Is the United States 275 

Cain Named the City After His Son 276 

W'here the Children of Ham Settled 277 

The Vagabond in France 278 

The City that Cain Built in the Land of Nod 278 

The Turks Came from Turkestan in India 279 

Thus the City Was Built, and the Arabic Mohammedans Be- 
came Turks 280 

Where the Sons of Japheth Settled 281 

The Seventh Bowl Is Poured Upon the Air 282 

Japheth (Russia) Will Be Enlarged and Dwell in the Tents of 

Shem 283 

All Europe Will Be Afraid 284 

Europe Is to Be Divided Into Three Parts 285 

Plagues Are to Come Upon All Europe 286 

The Powers of Heaven Will Be Shaken, and Europe Will 
Reel To and Fro Like a Drunkard and Be Removed Like 

a Hut 287 

The Antitypical Exodus in 1736 288 

The Bones of Joseph Carried Out of Egypt 289 

Moses Vanished from the Colonials in 1776, When the War 
Cloud Stood Over Him; He Disappeared in a Certain 
Valley ..290 



INDEX. II 

Savannah, Darien and Augusta, in the Colony of Georgia, in 

1736 292 

The Younger Receives the Greater Blessing 293 

Thirteen States in Palestine 294 

The First Creation 296 

God Can Neither Be Defined by Any Words, Nor Conceived 

by the Mind 297 

Europe Utterly Emptied 298 

A Creation of Symbols Only 299 

Vespasian Was a Symbol of Our Currency and Was Born in 

1837 300 

Golden Window Set on Fire 301 

Proclamation in the English Language 302 

English House of Commons 303 

Solomon Symbolized Charlemagne 304 

Our Twenty-fourth President 307 

Mount of Olives Cleave in the Midst 308 

Turn Things Into Another Meaning." 309 

Fifty-third Congress 310 

The Sun Shall Be Darkened 313 

Vespasian Born in 1837 314 

The Siege of Jerusalem 315 

The Root of All Evil 317 

Numbers Slain in the Siege 318 

Jerusalem Symbolizes Our Monetary System 319 

Vespasian and Titus Have a United Triumphal Entry Into 
Rome 320 

General of the Eenemy Slain 322 

Vespasian Builds a Temple to Peace 323 

Last Pompous Show in the Forum, Rome 324 

Last Evil Times, and It Causes Resurrection 325 

Transfiguration After Six Ages 326 

The Ages of Creation Are Shortened 327 

The Romans Commanded by General Titus 328 

Our Present Monetary System Receives Its Death Stroke 329 

The Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents 330 

Numerals of Josephus 332 



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Shall a Land Be Born in One Day? 333 

Discovery Impossible Until 'Literalized 334 

Tower of Babel 33 '> 

Rahab the Harlot 2>2>7 

The Arch of Titus Now Standing in Rome 338 

All Things that the Scriptures Say Were Created in the Be- 
ginning Began to Literally Appear at the Birth of Christ. .340 

Symbolisms 342 

Phaeton Goes to His Suspected Father's Palace. The Sun 
(United States), Heaven in Prophecy, All Are One. 
Apollo, His Father, Sits in the Sun's Bright Palace, on 
High Columns Raised, with Burnished Gold and Flaming 
Jewels Blazed, Where the Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, 
Years, and Ages Are Arranged, and in Order Stand; and 
in the Portal Are Displayed on High (the Work of Vul- 
can) a Fictitious Sky. In Proof of His Legitimacy Phae- 
ton Is Given Permission for One Day (Year) to Drive 
the Steeds of the Sun, and the Vulcanean Chariot, from 
the Heavens to the Earth (from the United States to 
Euroup). The Chariot Will Be Peculiar; a Golden Axle 
Will the Work Uphold; the Rolling Wheels Will Be 
Orbed with Gold; the Spokes, in Rows of Silver, Will Be 
Placed to Please the Sight, and the Pole .Will Be of Gold. 351 
The Seat of Particolored Gems Will Be Set, Diffusing a Silver 
Light. The Horses Were Pyroeis, Aethon, Phlegon, and 
Eous. Phaeton FoTgets Their Names, Loses Control; 
the Horses Become Furious, the Golden Axle Fuses, and 
Politically and Financially Burn Up All Europe in the 
Year 1899 A. D 351 



God, the Universe, and the Scriptures Are Inconipre= 
hensible. 

The veils on the Scriptures can only be removed by 
numerical calculations. As the prophecies, also the laws 
of Moses, are written in symbols, as the things created in 
the beginning were all symbols, and are all used by the 
prophets as symbols, consequently they will have to be 
interpreted by numerals. Yet they answer for command- 
ments without the interpretation of numerals, as God, the 
universe and the Scriptures are incomprehensible. 

The self-styled philosophers in their arguments 
against God and his Christ often say that the universe is 
governed by law, and that it is from common and natural 
causes. This seems to be good philosophy and common 
sense as far as it is carefully argued. But if a Christian 
should inquire of the philosopher how large the universe 
is that is governed by law, and how much of that common 
cause it requires to administer the law throughout the 
entire universe, he would be unable to answer the ques- 
tion unless he had explored the universe. Yet he could 
ansvv'er by asking another, namely, as to the dimensions 
of the Christian's God; and aside from the Scriptures, one 
could be answered as satisfactorily as the other. God, in 
the Scriptures, has only given man a history of what is 
called the six ages, the heaven and the earth, and the 
things therein contained, but he has not given him a his- 
tory of the universe, and there is but little said of a uni- 
verse. The heaven there described is the abode of his 
people on this globe, and is not celestial, as it refuses to 
spiritualize, and the earth so often mentioned means the 
old Roman earth, or world, as it was commonly called in 
the days of old, when the United States of Israel was being 
typified by the ancient Israel of Palestine. 

The Scriptures say nothing of the universe, and the 

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14 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

merest hint of anything concerning the globe, aside from 
the heaven and the earth, is all that can be found. That 
heaven and earth created in the beginning only symbolized 
Europe, which was occupied as the old Roman territory, 
and was anciently known as the earth, or the whole world; 
and the heaven was symbolized by Christ, or the man- 
child that was born in a day, for man was created from the 
dust of the earth, and as the United States was created 
from the earth (Europe), it is symbolized by the heaven 
in prophecy. 

God has not given his people a history of the universe 
to decipher, nor even all of this globe itself, that we are 
frequently calling so small, but only a part of it, and that 
part where it concerns his own special people that he 
calls Israel; yet there are great men, and many of them 
philosophers, who hasten to proclaim to the world that 
the universe is governed by a law — a statement that the 
lowest of mankind has never been accused of doubting — 
and a majority will tell you that they believe that law to 
be inexorable. Have any of them told us where the law 
came from? Assuredly not. But then, of course, there 
could be some fertile law-oroducing soil somewhere in 
the universe that would supply the law in sufficient quan- 
tities, and th'^. administration of that law would have to be, 
as they say, inexorable. These great philosophers that 
are proclaiming Christianity a myth and the Scriptures 
a fiction, are positive of their so-called proof of a law that 
governs the universe, and that the proof of that law de- 
stroys the truthfulness of the Scriptures, or the possibility 
of the story of Christ being true. 

We have yet the first person to meet who will deny 
this sublimest of truths: The universe is governed by 
law. Not even the wandering tribes who have a sufficient 
language to make themselves understood will deny it. 
Yet who has gone out into the universe, and when did 
any return from there? Has there come a report from 
any of its borders? What part of the universe is occupied 
by our sun and its planetary system? Is it in the east, the 
west, the north, or in the south? or is it in the upper or 
lower part? No one has told us. Speedy thought lags 
at the conjectural stations of its constellations,' and the 



GOD AND THE UNIVERSE. 15 

searchlight of the mind has not glanced on the borders 
of its territory. To ponder on its vastness is to bring 
out its incomprehensible immensity. The law that gov- 
erns the universe is equally incomprehensible in its 
magnitude, and there can be no proof that it 
is not administered by a ruler that is incompre- 
hensible. Then there can be no proof that one could 
bring against the possibility of this globe, mankind, and 
all things on the globe being governed by the same in- 
comprehensible ruler; and that same ruler could have 
a written law that was already with mankind, but was not 
yet comprehended; nor would it ever be until the advent 
of the lime he had chosen to make it known. This he 
could do at such times and in such a manner as the 
progress of mankind demanded. God, the universe, and 
the Scriptures are equally incomprehensible. 

The works of Josephus are one great revelation, and 
in time they are to be explained by the Almighty and 
incomprehensible ruler of the universe; and all therein 
will come to pass when that little part concerning the 
Israel of the United States begins to appear in the events 
that are fast culminating in the affairs of his nation and 
fulfilling those parts of the Scriptures that will reveal 
his people as being located in the prophetic heaven — 
the United States of America, the ancient of days, which 
will be the new Jerusalem. 

If the Scriptures signified the globe when the earth 
and world were mentioned, then when its rotundity was 
discovered by circumnavigation a part of their symbolic 
mystery would have been destroyed, contrary to the great 
plan of the Creator from the beginning of the foundation 
of the world (Roman world or earth), as that would have 
been a plain, open fulfillment of that part of the prophecy 
since Christ. Consequently, it would have been a hin- 
drance to that work, "his strange work; and bring to pass 
his act, his strange act." — Isaiah, chapter 28-21. 

In the thirty-fifth verse of the thirteenth chapter of 
St. Matthew it is written: 'T will open my mouth in 
parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation 
of the world." 

Matthew is speaking here, not of the foundation of 



l6 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

the globe, but of the Roman world. Again, in the first 
verse of the second chapter of St. Luke, it says: "Now 
it came to pass in those days there went out a decree from 
Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled."^ 
(One translation has it taxed and one registered.) Again, 
in the third verse of the same chapter, it says: "And all 
went to enroll themselves, every one to his own city." 
From this it is plain that the Roman empire, including 
Palestine, was commonly called the world, or earth; and 
it was so called by all the prophets. It therefore seems 
to be an established fact that whenever the terms earth 
or world were used by the prophets, they alluded to that 
part of the globe which was governed by the Romans, 
and to that part only. 

Bearing in mind, also, that all prophecies were 
spoken in parables, their meaning can only be revealed by 
their allusions and illustrations being typical or symboli- 
cal of some event that has gone before, or some era or 
occurrence that is to follow. When the key to these 
prophecies has once been obtained they can be solved 
and explained with mathematical accuracy. 

Starting out upon these premises, we contend that 
all the prophecies of the ancient prophets go to prove 
that the heaven, or new Jerusalem, spoken of by them 
was none other than the United States of America. This 
can be shown so clearly that no one can dispute it. 
Every event that has happened, and every era that has 
rolled round in the United States has been as plainly and 
unerringly predicted as though the prophet himself had 
been architect and ruler of all things. Keeping in our 
minds, then, that the earth or world, when spoken of, 
means the Roman earth or world, we next find that the 
foundation of the earth or world alludes to a time when a 
system of laws were codified and put into force, and not to 
the creation of the globe, for no nation can be said to have 
been founded until it has established a regular and per- 
manent system of laws by which its people are to be 
governed. The first establishment of this kind was after 
the creation of the second Adam, which was Chi"ist; con- 
sequently, the birth of Christ was the real creation of all 
things, even the heaven and the earth, and the things 



GOD AND THE UNIVERSE. 17 

that are there and therein. The Old Testament consti- 
tuted the first creation, as all the things said in the old 
Scriptures to have been created in six days of creation 
were symbols. Even the six days themselves were sym- 
bols, as they symbolized six periods, or six intervals of 
time after the real creation, which began with the birth 
of Christ; and the Creator, through his Scriptures, will 
reveal all these mysteries in their order just as they were 
designed to be. The foundation of the world, from which 
the Lamb was slain, occurred during the reign of Jus- 
tinian, in the year 533, A. D., and to that period we look 
for those foundations. 

We find the following prophecies in the thirteenth 
chapter of Revelation, commencing at the fifth verse: 
"And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great 
things and blasphemies; and there was given to him 
authority to continue forty and two months." Taking 
each day to mean a year, forty and two months would 
be twelve hundred and sixty years. There is an interval 
of twelve hundred and sixty years from the publication 
of the Justinian Pandects, in 533, to the year 1793, when 
those laws precipitated upon France (which is a tenth 
part of the city, also a tenth part of the Roman world) 
the reign of terror and the suppression of the Bible and 
New Testament — these being the two witnesses that are 
referred to in Revelation, chapter 11-7, as having been 
killed after having testified in sackcloth for twelve hun- 
dred and sixty years. Then after three and a half years 
the French Assembly restored them and they heard a 
great voice from heaven (the United States) saying: 
"Come up hither." That voice was the toleration of all 
religions in heaven (the United States), and about that 
time these facts had become heralded all over the Roman 
world, especially in France, by the returning soldiers who 
had fought for the freedom of the United States of 
America. In the sixth verse of the same chapter it says: 
"And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, 
to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, even them 
that dwell in the heaven." This statement shows that 
those who dwelt in heaven were his people somewhere in 
the flesh, and not in the celestial heaven, as many suppose. 



i8 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

because earthly or physical things cannot blaspheme 
against spiritual things. In the seventh verse it says: 
"And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, 
and to overcome them; and there was given to him 
authority over every tribe and people and tongue and 
nation." In the eighth verse it says: "And all that 
dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose 
name hath not been written in the book of life of the 
Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the 
world." And in the ninth verse: "If any man hath an 
ear to hear, let him hear." 

(The latter indicates symbolic mystery.) The founda- 
tion of the w'orld here mentioned .was laid in 533, A. D., 
by the Justinian code of laws which went into efifect at 
that time, and the 1,260 years following constituted the 
dark ages ending with the French revolution in 1793, and 
at the same time the rise of the United States, or the 
loundation of heaven, commenced. At the foundation of 
the world in the year 533 the Lamb was slain by the 
blasphemous powders of the Justinian code of laws which 
tryannized over all the Roman world, until it began to 
weaken in about the year 1793, by the annulling of the 
titles and confiscation of 7,000 estates belonging to the 
nobility and clergy of France. And there was given him 
authority over every tribe and people, and tongue, and 
nation, and all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, 
every one whose name has not been written in the book 
of life of the Lamb that hath been slain from the founda- 
tion of the world. Now mark that the text says that the 
beast had authority over every tribe and people, and 
tongue, and nation that dwells upon the earth (not the 
globe), as the Justinian code of laws did not then have 
power outside of the earth (Europe), at least not every 
tribe and people and tongue and nation outside of the 
Roman territory. 

Here is more proof that when the prophets speak of 
the earth or world they are alluding to that part of the 
globe included in the old Roman territory, and not the 
entire globe. This beast positively symbolizes the fanati- 
cal belief in the divine right of kings, because it is the 
only power that ever had authority over every tribe and 



GOD AND THE UNIVERSE. 19 

people, and tongue, and nation of Europe, or any other 
collection of tribes, peoples, tongues and nations in any 
part of the globe. 

In 1793 a decree passed the French Assembly sup- 
pressing the Bible. Just three years after a resolution was 
introduced into the Assembly superseding the decree, 
and giving toleration to the Scriptures. The resolution 
lay on the table six months, when it was taken up and 
passed without a dissenting vote. Thus, in just three 
and a half years the two witnesses stood upon their feet, 
the appalling results of the reign of terror had compelled 
France to take her hands from off the two witnesses. 

Revelation, chapter 11-12: "And they heard a great 
voice from heaven saying unto them, 'Come up hither.' 
And they went up into the heaven in the cloud; and their 
enemies beheld them." 

As soon as the decree of infidelity passed the Assem- 
bly scenes of blood, carnage and horror began; and in 
that earthquake France, a tenth part of the city, fell; 
which was a tenth part of the earth (Europe). It is said 
by those who have examined the French records that just 
seven thousand of the clergy and nobility lost their titles; 
and the remnant that escaped the horrors of that hour 
gave glory to the God of heaven (United States) by adopt- 
ing a similar constitutional democracy. 

Revelation, chapter 11-13: "And in that hour there 
was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell ; 
and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand 
persons; and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to 
the God of heaven." 

They heard a great voice from heaven (United States) 
saying, "Come up hither." About that time — 1793 to 
1797 — the free institutions of American democracy, espe- 
cially the toleration of all religions, was being published 
tliroughout all Europe, and especially in France, by the 
returned French soldiers who had fought under Lafayette 
to establish democratic freedom in the great republic of 
heaven. 

Revelation, chapter 12-7: "And there was war in 
heaven; Michael and his angels going forth to war with 
the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels." 



20 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Revelation 12-8: "And they prevailed not, neither 
was their place found any more in heaven." 

Revelation 12-9: "And the great dragon was cast 
down; the old serpent, he that it called the devil and 
satan, the deceiver of the whole world, he was cast down 
to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him." 

Michael was the arch-angel, which means chief 
angel; and angel symbolizes an agency of some kind; 
consequently, Michael is the chief agency, which is the 
liberal institutions of the United States. Now Michael 
and his angels were pitted against the dragon and his 
angels. The dragon is called the old serpent, satan and 
devil. The battle was fought in heaven. 

The dragon, devil, satan and his angels prevailed not, 
neither was their place found any more in heaven. The 
latter words implies to their former residence in heaven 
before they were case down to the earth. The dragon, 
satan, devil and his angels dwelt in heaven until 1776; 
then the battles in heaven began. Michael and his angels 
were victorious, and the devil and his angels lost. 

The dragon, devil, satan and his angels symbolize 
monarchy and its agencies that lost the battle that was 
fought in heaven. The main battle lasted from 1776 to 
1783, when monarchy was cast out of the United States 
down to the earth (Europe). 

Revelation, chapter 12-12: "Therefore rejoice, O 
heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth 
and for the sea; because the devil is gone down unto you, 
having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short 
time." 

Woe for the earth (Europe), and for the sea (politics), 
because the devil is gone down unto you, having great 
wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time. 

The time of monarchy in Europe is short; it is even 
now at the door. 

Revelation, chapter 12-13: "And when the dragon 
saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the 
woman which brought forth the man-child." 

The dragon persecuted the woman (democratic 
Christianity) which brought forth the man-child. The 
United States is the man-child, and the nation that was 



GOD AND THE UNIVERSE, 21 

brought forth in a day. And when the dragon (monarchy) 
saw that he was cast out of heaven (United States) he 
.'A ent forth to make war with the rest of her seed — the rest 
of democracy; then all Europe allied themselves against 
republican France. 

Revelation, chapter 12-14: "And there were given 
to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she 
might fly into the wilderness unto her place where she 
is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from 
the face of the serpent." 

The woman was given the two wings of the great 
ei'gle that she might fly into the wilderness unto her 
place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and 
half a time, from monarchy, which would be three and 
one-half years that France and Spain, the two wings of 
Europe — the great eagle — nourished the woman, the 
mother of the man-child, by the secret alliance of Spain 
with France, April, 1779, when both attacked England 
with their naval forces in August, 1779, by laying siege to 
Gibraltar, thus aiding the United States to gain her inde- 
pendence. 

Spain seems to have aided France in order that 
France might aid the American colonies against their 
enemy. Great Britain. 

Mark how the fourteenth verse reads: "Into the 
wilderness, unto her place, where she was nourished from 
the face of the serpent for a time, and times, and half a 
time" — which is equal to three and one-half years. 

Revelation, chapter 12-15: "And the serpent cast 
out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that 
he might cause her to be carried away by the stream." 

About 1793 satan (infidelity that was caused by the 
oppression of monarchy) cast great influences against the 
woman, who symbolized the great Roman Catholic 
church, the mother of all churches, by the leaders of the 
municipality of Paris, France, in their madness of atheism, 
publicly expressed their determination to dethrone the 
king of heaven. And the crowning act of this satanic 
drama was when the goddess of reason, personified by a 
beautiful woman, was introduced into the convention 
and declared to be the only divinity worthy of adoration. 



22 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

The churches were closed, religion everywhere aban- 
doned, and on all the public cemeteries were placed the 
inscription, "Death is an eternal sleep." 

France, in declaring war against the Creator, the 
church and the Scriptures, at the same time declared war 
against all the kingdoms of Europe (earth), and in the 
great struggle that ensued the Bible was re-instated, and 
the priests and bishops were in the majority recalled, the 
churches reopened and the worship of the Almighty was 
restored to near what it was before the revolution. 

Thus the earth swallowed up the flood of infidelity 
cast out of the serpent's mouth. 

The woman's (church) influences (who was mother 
of all the living) was nourished from the face of the ser- 
pent for a time, and times, and half a time, by French 
soldiers in America under Lafayette, from about July, 
1780, to September, 1783, when peace was declared be- 
tween Britain and the United States. 

Thus closed the most important war in which 
England had ever been engaged — a war which originated 
in her ungenerous treatment of the American colonies. 
The expense of blood and treasure which this war cost 
England was enormous; nor did her European antag- 
onists suffer much less severely. The United States was 
the only country that could claim any beneficial results 
from the war, and these were obtained by a strange union 
of opposing motives and principles on the part of Euro- 
pean powers. France and Spain, arbitrary despots of the 
Old World, had stood forth as the protectors of an infant 
republic, and had combined, contrary to all the principles 
of their political faith, to establish the rising liberties of 
America. They seemed but as blind instruments in the 
hands of God, employed to aid in the dissemination of 
those republican virtues that are destined to overthrow 
every system of political oppression throughout the globe. 

The woman (the church), with the twelve stars, also 
obtained great privileges in the United States; in fact, all 
privileges except marriage with the state, for Christ had 
said that there would be no marrying nor giving in 
marriage there — in heaven — (the United States). 

Daniel says in the eleventh verse of the twelfth chap- 



GOD AND THE UNIVERSE. 23 

ter of his book: "And from the time that the continual 
burnt offering shall be taken away and the abomination 
that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand 
two hundred and ninety days" (years). 

The continual burnt offering was taken away in the 
year 603, A. D., when Phocas usurped the imperial throne, 
murdered the Emperor Maurice and his sons, and ac- 
knowledged the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome. 
Now, 1,290 years added to 603 carries us to 1893, the 
beginning of the second term of the administration of 
Cleveland. The setting up of that vile administration is 
what Daniel terms the abomination of desolation. I am 
aware that some may be incredulous as to the abomina- 
tion of the Cleveland administration, but time will bring 
forth the interpretation of the prophecy, and we believe 
that Daniel will be found to be correct, and that the 
consequences of that administration and the continua- 
tion of the things that were then set up will come 
glaringly before the people of the United States. In the 
twelfth and thirteenth verses of this same chapter Daniel 
says: "Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the 
thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 
But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest 
and shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days." 

On the 20th day of July, 1868, Secretary Seward 
issued a notice of the adoption of the fourteenth amend- 
ment to the Constitution of the United States by a 
majority of the States. By adding the 1,335 years to 533, 
we are carried to the year 1868, when the United States 
adopted the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. 
As the 1,335 years end in 1868, and as there was to be a 
blessing at the end of that time, we give these incidents 
to establish that time; and they are of sufficient import- 
ance to do so. 

Section one of the fourteenth amendment reads as 
follows: "All persons born or naturalized in the United 
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens 
of the United -States, and of the States wherein they reside. 
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall 
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the 
United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of 



24 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor 
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal pro- 
tection of the laws." 

On Christmas Day, 1868, President Johnson issued 
a second amnesty proclamation, declaring unconditionally 
and without reservation, a full pardon and amnesty to 
every person who had participated in the late rebellion. 
The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, giving the 
right of suffrage to all citizens of the republic, without 
regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude, 
was recommended by a joint resolution of Congress, 
February 26, 1869. It was subsequently ratified by the 
requisite number of States. 

Now, some may ridicule this event as one of too little 
consequence to be mentioned by the prophets in holy 
writ, yet the ways of God are past finding out. 

In the year 533, A. D., the Justinian code of laws 
caused the following results: The woman (which sym- 
bolized God's people, or the church) fled into the wilder- 
ness for 1,260 years, with twelve stars on her head. The 
dark ages continued for 1,260 years from that time. The 
two witnesses, the Old and New Testaments, wore sack- 
cloth for 1,260 years from 533, A. D. It was the begin- 
ning of the symbolized foundation of the world. As 
Christ was the spirit of prophecy, it is said of him that he 
will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world. 
The foundation of the world does not mean the creation 
of the world; for they are separated in their beginnings 
by thousands of years, and both are symbolic periods of 
time. One began six thousand and the other only 1,363 
years ago. The latter event was small compared with the 
former. 

We make the assertion that the creation mentioned 
in the first chapter and verse of Genesis, as follows: "In 
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," was 
only a symbolized history of six thousand years, and all 
the things that were created, including heaven and the 
earth at that creation, are all used throughout the Scrip- 
tures to symbolize something that was to come, or take 
place, during the six periods comprising the six thousand 
symbolic years. Which years were shortened so as to 



GOD AND THE UNIVERSE. 25 

symbolize the six shorter ages since the Hteral creation, 
which began at the birth of Christ. 

Barnabas, chapter 13-4: "Consider, my children, 
what that signifies; he finished them in six days. The 
meaning of it is this: that in six thousand years the Lord 
God will bring all things to an end." 

Then will come the resurrection and transfiguration, 
which will be political, and was symbolized by the trans- 
figuration of Jesus in the high mountain. 

Mark, chapter 9-2: "And after six days Jesus taketh 
with him Peter, and James, and John, and bringeth them 
up into a high mountain apart by themselves, and he was 
transfigured before them." 

Mark, chapter 9-3: "And his garments became glis- 
tering, exceeding white ; so as no fuller on earth can 
whiten them." 

Mark, chapter 9-4: "And there appeared unto them 
Elijah with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.*' 

The transfiguration, Mark says, came after six days, 
which is a symbol of the six ages, the end of the six thou- 
sand symbolic years, which will terminate between 1899 
and 1900. His clothes symbolize governing laws, and 
they became bright and shining, exceedingly white, such 
as no fuller on earth (Europe) can whiten. Jesus talking 
with Elijah and Moses symbolizes the old Mosaic 
democracy that will begin to be somewhat observed and 
renewed after 1899 by the United States. The high 
mountain that Jesus was transfigured upon symbolizes the 
great and strong civil government that was to be trans- 
figured. The mountain being high will apply to the high 
standing in which our government is held by the nations 
of the globe at the time the transfiguration will begin. 

Barnabas, chapter 13-6: "And what is that he saith, 
and he rested the seventh day; he meaneth this: that when 
his son shall come and abolish the season of the wicked 
one, and judge the ungodly, and shall change the sun 
and the moon and the stars, then he shall gloriously rest 
in that seventh day." 

After the six thousand years his son shall come; 
meaning Christ's works and influences, as he is the spirit 
of prophecy that will begin then to change the sun and 



26 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

the moon and the stars; meaning that the highest magis- 
trates of the United States of Israel will be changed, 
which will be part of the transfiguration. 

The famous compilation of the Roman laws known as 
the Pandects and codes of Justinian was a collection of 
scattered monuments of ancient jurisprudence, and the 
putting in order of whatever was useful in the books of 
former jurisconsults. This celebrated work finally gen- 
erated enough of the wisdom of antiquity to lose itself for 
several centuries in its own gloom, and the dark ages 
which it caused, but was dug up in the middle of the 
twelfth century. The digest which Gibbon has made of it 
is now received as the text 'book on civil law in some of the 
universities of Europe. 



Some Numerical Prophecies of Josephus. 

Jewish War Book 6, chapter lo: "That whereas 
Jerusalem had been five times taken formerly, this was the 
first time of its desolation. A brief account of its history: 
And thus was Jerusalem taken in the second year of the 
reign of Vespasian on the eighth day of the month Gor- 
pieus (Elul) — about the middle of September 1898 or 1899. 
"It had been taken five times before, though this was 
the first time of its desolation ; for Shishack, the King of 
Egypt, and after him Antiochus, and after him Pompey, 
and after them Sosius and Herod took the city, but still 
preserved it; but before all these the King of Babylon 
conquered it and made it desolate 1,468 years and six 
months after it was built. But he who first built it was 
a potent man among the Canaanites, and is in our tongue 
called Melchisedek (the righteous King), for such he 
really was ; on which account he was (there) the priest of 
God and first built a temple (there) and called the city 
Jerusalem, which was formerly called Salem. However, 
David, the King of the Jews, ejected the Canaanites, and 
settled his own people therein. It was demolished entirely 
by the Babylonians 477 years and six months after him; 
and from King David, who was the first of the Jews who 
reigned therein to this destruction under Titus, were 1,179 
years; but from its first building to this, its last destruction, 
were 2,177 years; yet hath not its great antiquity, nor its 
vast riches, nor the diffusion of its nation over all the 
habitable earth, nor the greatness of the veneration paid 
to it on a religious account, been sufificient to preserve it 
from being destroyed. And thus ended the siege of 
Jerusalem." 

The Nicean Council opened June 19th, A. D. 325; 
add to this date 1,468 years intervening between the build- 
ing of Jerusalem and its first desolation by the King of 

27 



28 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Babylon, and we have the year 1793. This was the year 
that the French Assembly passed a decree suppressing 
the Bible, which is the event typified by the first desola- 
tion of Jerusalem. The Council of Nice was the first great 
general assembly of the church, and in this venerable 
assen'ibly 318 bishops, together Vk^'ith the legates of the 
Pope — St. Sylvester — condemned the Aryan heresy. The 
318 bishops of the Council of Nice were symbolized by 
Abraham's army of the same number. The three hun- 
dred symbolized the grand embarkation that left England 
and landed at Savannah, Georgia, in 1736, and who wan- 
dered in the wilderness forty years, or until the year 1776; 
and the eighteen symbolized the eighteen men that John 
Brown had with him at Harper's Ferry in 1859; also 
Abraham's three friends typified the three friends of John 
Brown that did not cross the river, thus leaving him 
(Brov/n) the exact number, according to prophecy. 

325 A. D., date of Council of Nice. 
1,468 Years from foundation to destruction of Jerusalem. 

1,793 Date the Bible was suppressed in France. 

We quote the following from Apocyphal New Tes- 
tament, eighth chapter of Barnabas, 11, 12, 13, 14: "For 
the Scripture says that Abraham circumcised three hun- 
dred and eighteen men of his house. But what, therefore, 
was the mystery that was made known unto him?" 

12: "Mark, first the eighteen and next the three 
hundred. For the numeral letters of ten and eight are 
I H. And these denote Jesus." 

13: "And because the cross was that by which we 
were to find grace; therefore he adds three hundred; the 
note of which is T (the figure of his cross). Wherefore 
by two letters he signified Jesus, and by the third his 
cross." 

14: "He who has put the engrafted gift of his doc- 
trine within us knows that I never taught to any one a 
more certain truth ; but I trust that ye are worthy of it." 

In the year 726 Emperor Leo HI. ruled at Constanti- 
nople. This Prince, known as the Iconoclaust, or image 
breaker, was typified by King David. In the year 726 
Leo HI. issued his celebrated decree against image wor- 



NUMERICAL PROPHECIES OF JOSEPHUS. 29 

ship (the Canaanites symbolized image worship). Add 
to the date of this decree (726) the time that elapsed 
between the coming of David to Jerusalem and the de- 
struction of the city (477 A. D.) and we have the year 
1203. In 1203 Pope Innocent III. founded the Inquisi- 
tion, for the purpose, as he said, of converting the 
Albigens. Consequently the temple was demolished in 
the year 1203. From' the first building of the city of 
Jerusalem to its destruction under Titus was 2,177 years. 
In the year 277, B. C, the Scriptures were translated from 
Hebrew into Greek, which is prophetically called the 
building of Jerusalem by Ptolmey Philadelphius. Taking 
this date {2^^, B. C.) from 2,177 years, the time that 
elapsed between the building of Jerusalem and its destruc- 
tion under Titus, we have the year A. D. 1900, the end of 
the six thousand years, or the six symbolic ages, which is 
the beginning of the resurrection of the living, the United 
States of Israel. 

It (Jerusalem) was demolished entirely by the 
Babylonians 477 years after him (King David). Taking 
the time of the translation of the gospel from Hebrew 
unto Greek as a base as before {2^^, B. C.) we add the 
477 years mentioned above and we have 200, A. D. This 
is the date of the beginning of the persecution of the 
Christians by Septimus Severius, who first permitted the 
magistrates to execute the old laws on this subject, and 
who afterward expressly authorized their conduct by a 
new edict issued in the tenth year of his reign, A. D. 202. 
Then the persecutions became general against the 
Christians. 
A. D. 477 From King David to the destruction of 

Jerusalem. 
A. D. 726 When Leo issued his decree against image 

worship. 

1,203 Inquisition founded by Innocent III. 

A. D. 2,177 From the building of Jerusalem to its 

destruction. 

B. C. 2yy Time when the Bible was translated from 

Hebrew into Greek. 



30 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

1,900 Is to be the end of the six symboHc ages 
and the beginning of the millenium, the 
first resurrection, or that of the Hving — 
the United States Constitution. 

A. D. 477 From King David to destruction of 

Jerusalem. 

B. C. 277 Time of translation of gospel into Greek. 



A. D. 200 Beginning of the persecution of Christians 
by Severus. 

The Antitypical Three Hundt-ed Children of Israel 

— Knoxvn as the Grand Etnbarkation When They 

Left England — Who Landed in Savannah^ Georgia^ 

Under Ogelthorpe^ in the Tear i/jd, and Which 

Were Symbolized by the Israelites Under AIoscs. 

Antiquities, Book 2, xv., 2: "How the Hebrews 
under conduct of Moses left Egypt. They left in the 
month Xanthicus, on the fifteenth day of the lunar month, 
430 years after our father Abraham came into Canaan, but 
215 years only after Jacob removed into Egypt. It was 
the eightieth year of the age of Moses, and of that of 
Aaron three more. They carried out the bones of Joseph 
with them, as he had charged his sons to do." 

In the year 1521 the Council of Sorbonne, in Paris, 
under the influence of the French monarch, declared that 
flames, and not reasoning, ought to be employed against 
the arrogance of Luther; and in the same year the Diet 
of Worms, at which Charles V. presided, pronounced 
the imperial ban of excommunication against Luther. 
Now, if to 1,521 we add 215, we have a total of 1,736, the 
year of the landing of the mystic 300 under Oglethorpe 
at Savannah, Georgia. 

1,521 Excommunication of Luther (Jacob). 
215 From the time Jacob (Luther) went into Egypt 
until the exodus. 



1,736 Landing of the children of Israel under Ogle- 
thorpe (Moses). 
In the year 1306 the cause of Scottish freedom was 
revived by Robert Bruce, and he was, in the spring of 



NUMERICAL PROPHECIES OF JOSEPHUS. 31 

that year, crowned King of Scotland, at Scone, by the 
revolted barons. This is the event typified by the coming 
of Abraham into Canaan. Add to this date (1,306) the 
time that had elapsed from the coming of Abraham into 
Canaan to the exodus (430 years) and we have i ,736 — the 
antitypical exodus — as before. 
1,306 Crowning of Robert Bruce (Abraham). 
430 From Abraham (Bruce) to the exodus. 



1,736 Landing of the three hundred children of Israel 
under Oglethorpe (Moses). 

Taking the time that elapsed from the entrance of 
Abraham into Canaan till the exodus (430 years) from the 
date of the landing of the three hundred at Savannah, 
Georgia (in 1736), we have 1306, which is the last year of 
the reign of Edward I. of England, when several im- 
portant additions were made to the English Constitution, 
of which the most valuable was that concession wrung 
from the King, by Archbishop Winchesla and the Earls of 
Hereford and Norfolk, viz., that no taxes should thence- 
forward be levied on the people without the consent of 
their Parliamentary representatives. 

In all of our Creator's holy books there is such a 
decided favor shown to the democratic form of govern- 
ment that it almost amounts to a command for man to live 
under a government of the people, by the people, and for 
the people. 

1,736 Landing of the three hundred under Oglethorpe 
(Moses). 
430 From Abraham in Canaan to the exodus. 



1,306 Parliament of Edward I., which obtained conces- 
sions from the King. This Parliament was typi- 
fied by Abraham coming into Canaan. 
The year 1306 rises into importance and is typified 
by Abraham, not because Edward I. was King at that 
time, but because Parliament at that time began to assume 
its modern shape and ceased to be an irregular, incoherent 
and experimental body, and in that time became a well 
defined legislature; and to this day a statute of Edward I. 



32 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

is as much a law of England, if unrepealed, as a statute of 
Queen Victoria. 

These are some of the types and symbols of the 
Scriptures that are pointing the world to a democratic 
form of government, and there are many more in the 
Scriptures pointing in the same direction. 

The landing of the mystic three hundred at Savannah, 
Georgia, we find to be the antitypical exodus of 1736. 
Josephus says that at the time of the exodus, or going out 
of the Hebrews from Egypt, Moses was 80 and Aaron 
83 years of age. We may find, then, the event typified by 
the birth of Moses, by taking eighty years from 1736, or 
the date of the antitypical exodus. This would carry us 
back to 1656, the year that Oliver Cromwell was offered 
the dignity of a king by the Parliament of England, which 
honor he refused. We find the Cromwellian Parliament 
of 1656 to be the antitypical fiood that will eventually 
drown all the living creatures (monarchical governments) 
upon the earth (Europe). That Parliament was typified 
by the Ark, which means Covenant. 

Not Cromwell, but the refusal of the crown by Crom- 
well, was typified by Moses, and at that time, and in that 
event, was born the spirit that eighty years later led the 
chosen people, three hundred in number, to the anti- 
typical Canaan of America. 

In the same manner that we find the birth of Moses, 
we find that of Aaron three years earlier, or in 1653. In 
that year Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament, and 
summoned a more just one in its stead. As the execution 
of the ceremonial laws of the Hebrews was placed in the 
hands of Aaron, so the care of the English laws was 
entrusted to a more just Parliament, in order that they 
might be the more impartially enforced; and here again, 
the event, and not the instrument, was typified by Aaron. 

Antiquities, 4-8: "Moses lived 120 years, one-third 
of which time he ruled his people." That forty years, 
during which time Moses ruled his people, was in 
America, from 1736 to 1776, from the time of the exodus 
to the end of their wanderings. The exodus, as we have 
explained, was the coming of the three hundred to 
Savannah, with the spirit of freedom, in 1736. The wan- 



NUMERICAL PROPHECIES OF JOSEPHUS. 33 

derings of Israel for forty years in the wilderness corre- 
sponds with their forty years of colonial existence, when 
the colonists possessed the spirit of freedom, but not its 
substance, as the original Israel possessed the promise 
of a land flowing with milk and honey, but not the land 
in substance. At the end of ancient Israel's forty years 
wandering, they entered the promised land, and at the 
end of antitypical Israel's forty years' wanderings, from 
1736 to 1776, they obtained the freedom, the spirit and 
promise, for which they had wandered and striven for 
forty years to obtain. 

• Then Joshua ruled the people twenty-five years, or 
from 1776 to 1801, when the judiciary of the United States 
was reorganized and the Supreme Court was made to 
consist of five justices, with the celebrated John Marshall 
as chief justice. The rule of Israel by Joshua, as recorded 
in sacred history, was followed by a rule of judges. After 
the end of Joshua's rule, in modern Israel in 1801, we find 
him succeeded by judges. 

The judges of the Supreme Court, as a matter of fact, 
had, or exercised, but little power prior to 1801, but after 
that date the court, under Marshall, assumed increasing 
power, until many and bitter were the complaints of 
usurpation. 

The revolution of 1776 is the river Jordan that Moses 
was not allowed to cross over. 

Deut., 34-1 : "And Moses went up from the plains of 
Moab (progeny of a father) unto Mount Nebo (interpre- 
ter) to the top of Pisgah (a fragment), that is over against 
Jericho (a fragrant place), and the Lord showed him all 
the land of Gilead (a hill of witness) unto Dan" (Judge). 

Deut., 35-4: "And the Lord said unto him, this is 
the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and 
unto Jacob, saying, "I will give it unto thy seed; I have 
caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not 
go over thither." 

The above quotation states positively that the land in 
question was promised only to their seed, and the same 
promise was made to each of them, individually, and to 
their seed, thus showing that it was to be realized in the 
future. The Lord spake this way to Moses on the top of 



34 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Pisgah, saying- in substance: "I give thee land to the seed 
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; you can look over and see 
it, but I will not allow you to go over the river." The 
river Jordan which Moses was not allowed to cross is 
typical of the colonial institutions that were compelled to 
die when they were superseded by the constitutional laws 
after Jordan — the revolution of 177.6. 



The Democracy of Moses. 

The first six verses of tiie thirty-fourth chapter of 
Deuteronomy describes the progress of the democracy of 
Aloses up to the year 1776, as from that place (date) the 
Colonials began to realize that before them was a great, 
free republic, of which all Palestine is used to typify. 
"And the Lord said unto him (the colonial democracy): 
This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, 
and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed." Now 
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob never existed only on the 
pages of prophecy, to symbolize the primitive democracy 
which created the democracy of Moses, which was the 
Parliament under Cromwell in 1656, and that parliamen- 
tarian spirit led the grand embarkation of three hundred 
Israelites out of Europe (out of monarchy — out of Egypt) 
and landed them in Savannah, Georgia, in the year 1736, 
just eighty years after 1656. Moses was just eighty years 
old when he left Egypt with the children of Israel and 
took up their line of march through the wilderness for 
forty years, until Moses reached the age of 120 years in 
1776. The democracy of Cromwell was eighty years old 
when it left Europe, and in that same year, 1736, it plunged 
into the great American wilderness and wandered forty 
years until 1776. In the wilderness means without a gov- 
ernment of their own. The laws of the Colonials had to 
give place to that of the United States in 1776, forty years 
after 1736, and 120 years after 1656; so did Moses die at 
the age of 120 years in the year 1776. Moses symbolized 
the democracy of Cromwell in 1656. When Moses died 
his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated; thus 
he symbolized the Colonials in the days of 1776. Although 
they changed Constitutions, their republican eye was not 
dim, nor had the natural force of their democratic spirit 
abated. 

Exodus 33-11: "And the Lord spake unto Moses 
35 



36 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend." How the 
Almighty talked to Moses. Moses never existed only 
upon the pages of prophecy ; he symbolized the democracy 
of the parliaments in the time of Cromwell, which became 
an organized power in the year 1656, symbolizing the 
birth of Moses, and that parliamentarian spirit of democ- 
racy conducted the antitypical children of Israel out of 
the antitypical land of Egypt to the wilderness of America 
in the year 1736. Then came their wandering in the 
wilderness for forty years, until 1776, when they received 
exactly what had been promised to the seed of Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob — the promised land, the great republic 
of heaven; the heaven where Michael and his angels 
fought the dragon and his angels, but the cause of the 
dragon prevailed not, and he and his angels were cast 
down to the earth (Europe). The devil, dragon, serpent 
and satan all symbolize monarchy. The devil, dragon, 
satan, which is monarchy, was cast out of the kingdom of 
heaven between 1776 and 1783, as the battle between 
Michael, the chief angel of God, and the dragon lasted for 
seven years. Moses was 80 years old when the Israelites 
left Egypt (Europe) in 1736, then wandered in the Ameri- 
can wilderness forty years until he was 120 years old, in 
1776. The democracy of Moses, originated by town 
meetings, conventions and the ballot, which is the chief 
way that God communicates with the human family ; and 
by that means God talked face to face with Moses. Of 
all the miracles on the pages of prophecy, the first of 
them to be literally fulfilled was when Christ was born 
of a virgin; which indicates that Christianity sprang from 
a virgin church, or a theology which, until that time, had 
never been united with a state. Long before our era God 
had caused the books of the Old Testament to be written 
and placed in the hands of men in the land of Canaan, in 
Jerusalem, and its general vicinity; and the Jewish nation 
had been founded upon those books, more resembling a 
church than a nation, as it was more ecclesiastical than 
civil. Thus Judiaism was but little afifected when their 
country was absorbed by the Roman empire, as Judaism 
had long been possessed of several factions when the 
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THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 37 

tribes had long since disappeared and out of memory, 
except the Httle recorded of them in the sacred books. A 
foreign people had been placed in the kingdom of Israel 
and its name had been changed to that of Samaria and 
Galilee. The Jewish temple in Jerusalem had become a 
cattle market and a place to change money, and there had 
become many factions among the Jews in Jerusalem. The 
people of Judea and Samaria heartily despised each other, 
and all Palestine seemed to be ripe for revolution and 
rebellion when Jesus Christ came upon the scene, as pre- 
dicted in the Old Testament. And there was at that time 
remaining in Palestine the old worn-out church of the 
Jews, which had been founded upon a reformed theology 
brought out of Egypt many years before, under the name 
of the "Law of Moses," as it is written, "Out of Egypt 
have I called my son." 

All there was to the great Jewish church had 
emanated from the Scriptures and from Egypt in a day 
when Egypt was the chief seat of learning and the worship 
of one God through the agency of many symbolisms. 
The religion of the Jews was simply an improvement on 
that of Egypt; hence it was symbolized by the story of 
Israel coming up out of Egypt. In turn the religion of 
the Jews was superseded by that of Christianity; hence 
Christianity in its turn will be succeeded by the kingdom 
of God when the Israel of the United States is resurrected 
and transfigured, its resurrection beginning in the year 
1896, when it was 120 years of age — for after Moses the 
life of man (nation) was to be 120 years only. 

The Almighty could have caused the books of 
prophecy to be written by presenting an object to the 
writers in such a way that in long years after they were 
written they would become prophecy of a still further age 
in the futvire. In like manner He caused the pyramids, 
especially great Cheops, to be built, by presenting an 
object to the builders by which their architects would have 
to employ plans, measurements and proportions which 
in future ages would become prophetic witnesses to coin- 
cide with the prophecies in showing man a part of the 
great plan of the Creator; thus the Almighty could have 
caused the pyramids and all of the Scriptures without any 



38 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

people or any person being directly inspired. Further 
than, that, he could have caused all these things without 
employing the aid of miracles, as miracles never existed 
further than on the pages of prophecy, to symbolize literal 
things that were to come in the future. 

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses were all types of 
primitive democracy, in the same manner that all persons 
that are mentioned by the prophets are not individuals, but 
are used to typify institutions, orders or nationalities of 
some kind; hence it is possible that they never existed, 
other than on the pages of prophecy. If Moses had been a 
person and written the books containing the laws, then 
he must have written the account of his own death; and 
it is possible that all there ever was of the children of Israel 
prior to the causes of, and the beginning of the United 
States, is the scattered people known as Hebrews, Israel- 
ites, and Jews, as they could have derived their appellatives 
from the Scriptures as other churches have derived their 
names; thus the story of the children of Israel coming up 
out of Egypt and wandering in the wilderness forty years, 
ess one month, was in some manner caused by the Creator 
to be written to symbolize the real democracy of Jesus 
Christ coming up out of monarchy to the heaven of the 
United States; which will be the New Jerusalem as soon 
as it is resurrected and transfigured. The resurrection of 
the United States began in 1896, when the nation was 120 
years old. 

Genesis 6-3: "And the Lord said, my spirit shall not 
strive with man forever, for that he also is flesh; yet shall 
Jhis days be an 120 years." 

Flavins Josephus' "Antiquities of the Jews," book i, 
chapter 6-5: . . . "For the life of man was already by 
degrees diminished, and became shorter than before, till 
the birth of Moses, after whom the term of human life was 
120 years, God determining it to the length that Moses 
happened to live." Here we have the assurance that man 
is to live only 120 years. The word man in the Scriptures 
always symbolizes a nationality of some kind; the birth 
of Moses symbolized the birth of the parliamentarian 
democracy under Oliver Cromwell in 1656. That parlia- 
mentarian spirit of democracy lived and caused the three 



THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 39 

hundred (a sacred number) emigrants, known in history 
as the grand embarkation, to leave England and land in 
Savannah, Georgia, in the year 1736, eighty years after 
1656, and from their landing it was forty years until they 
came to the Jordan in the year 1776, which forty years 
literalized the children of Israel's forty years in the wilder- 
ness, as it was forty years of experience, or of uncertainties, 
without a Constitution of their own. The forty and eighty 
makes the 120 years of Moses' life, which ended when he 
had conducted the children of Israel to the Jordan in 1776. 
Joshua, 34-7: "And Moses was an 120 years old 
when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force 
abated." Thus Moses symbolized the old colonial 
democracy that was compelled to die in 1776, to give 
place to that of the United States. The keen desire of 
the Colonials for a free republic had not lost its vitality in 
the least when the change came in 1776. Then Joshua 
took command and conducted them over Jordan, the 
waters politically standing up in a heap until they passed 
over dry shod; then came the seven years' war for inde- 
pendence by Joshua marching around the walls of Jericho 
for seven consecutive days (years) before they fell. Jericho 
symbolized monarchy, whose walls fell after the seven 
years' war. Rahab symbolized the CathoUc church, who 
aided our spies, or envoys, in Europe to persuade the 
nations of Europe to aid and recognize the United States 
in its struggle for independence. The great church is 
built upon the walls of monarchy, so Rahab had her 
house upon the walls of Jericho. Jericho symbolized 
monarchy in the colonies which fell; yet Rahab and all 
her 1 datives were saved alive ; they were saved by red tape, 
or a scarlet cord, meaning the same thing. Rahab and all 
her family means all the churches; her family were all 
saved and protected, yet they were all set without the 
camp of Israel; meaning that the churches would not be 
allowed to be a part of the nation of Israel, thus dispelling 
the idea of the union of church and state in the United 
States forever. Notice that Christ said that in that world 
there would be no marrying or giving in marriage. — 
Matthew 22-30: "For in the resurrection they neither 
marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels m 



40 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

heaven" — agencies in the United States. This more par- 
ticularly means after the resurrection, as then the state 
will not be married to anything, not even to the trusts, 
political parties, railroads, national banks, or any other of 
the combinations of plutocracy. As the United States 
was seven years gaining independence, from 1776 until 
1783, so it may be seven years in its resurrection, from 
1896, when it was 120 years old, the allotted age of man 
after that of Moses, until 1903; but the powers that be in 
the United States are already wound up for that event. 

Moses was a type of the colonial laws that governed 
the antitypical children of Israel in the American wilder- 
ness from the landing of the antitypical, mysterious three 
hundred children of Israel that are known in history as 
the grand embarkation. Now, why do the three hundred 
emigrants who came to Georgia with Oglethorpe in 1736 
typify the children of Israel? 

Barnabas, 8-1 1 : "For the Scripture says that Abra- 
ham circumcised 318 men of his house. But what, there- 
fore, was the mystery made known unto him?" 

Barnabas, 8-12: "Mark first the eighteen and next 
the three hundred. For the numeral letters of X. and 
VII. are I. H., and these denote Jesus." 

John Brown was the son of man, and the eighteen 
men which he had with him at the foray at Harper's 
Ferry denote that he was the son of man; the three of 
his men that did not cross the river were emblematical of 
the three friends that Abraham had — Aner, Eschol and 
Mamre. (See. Genesis 14-24.) 

These are the three men that were with Abraham 
in his expedition against the four kings who captured 
Lot and his family, and who aided to liberate the King's 
prisoners — Lot and family. 

Barnabas, 8-13: "And because the cross was that by 
which we were to find grace, therefore he adds three 
hundred; the note of which is T (the figure of his cross). 
Wherefore by the two letters he signified Jesus, and by 
the third his cross." 

Matthew, 24-30: "And then shall appear the sign of 
the son of man in heaven. And then shall all the tribes of 
the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming 



THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 4» 

on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." 

Matthew, 24-27: "For as the lightning cometh forth 
from the east and is seen even into the west; so shall be 
the coming of the son of man." The foregoing refers to 
the coming of the son of man, and what some theologians 
call the second coming of Christ. The son of man has 
already come the second time. He came in the year 1859; 
and they crucified him in that year on December 2d. 

"He arose the third day." A day as spoken of here 
means one of our years ; and the third day, from Septem- 
ber, 1859, brings us to the close of 1862, when the emanci- 
pation proclamation was issued, to take effect the first of 
January following. 

John Brown, the son of man, arose with power and 
great glory when the shackles fell from millions of slaves 
in 1863. Christ and his revolutionary sentiments typified 
John Brown, the son of man, and his revolutionary senti- 
ments. The Home Missionary Society and kindred socie- 
ties encouraged John Brown's descent upon Harper's 
Ferry, as a thief in the night, thirty-three years after the 
birth of the Home Missionary Society, in the year 1826. 
The birth of the son of man is the organization of the 
Home Missionary Society in 1826. 

The present monetary system of the United States 
was typified by the old Jewish temple; also its destruction 
was typified by Christ when he overturned the tables of 
the money-changers in the temple. 

Apocryphal New Testament: Nicodemus, 22-11: 
"And we find in the first of the seventy books, where 
Michael, the archangel, is speaking to the third son of 
Adam, the first man, an account that after five thousand 
five hundred years, Christ, the most beloved son of God, 
was come on earth." 

By "on earth" we mean the old Roman earth, or 
world, and to this Cyrus came. He was a Messiah, the 
same as Christ; also he was the annointed of God. 

Nicodemus, 22-12: "And we further considered that 
perhaps he was the very God of Israel who spoke to 
Moses, Thou shalt make the ark of the testimony; two 
cubits and a half the breadth thereof and a cubit and a half 
the height thereof." 



42 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Nicodemus, 22-13: "By these five cubits and a half 
for the building of the ark of the Old Testament, we per- 
ceived and knew that in five thousand years and a half 
(one thousand years) Jesus Christ was to come in the ark 
or tabernacle of a body." 

Michael, the archangel. Angels always symbolize an 
agency of some kind, consequently archangel means one 
of high rank, a chief angel; and as all the Scriptures are 
founded on Christ and his people Israel, then Michael, the 
archangel, must symbolize the chief agent, which is Christ; 
and Christ, of course, has a chief representative, and that 
representative must be his people Israel, the people of the 
United States, as they are the most Christianized of any 
nation on the globe. 

With the assistance of^ the explanation made by 
Nicodemus, we will try and find the end of the 5,500 years 
when the Messiah is to appear. This explanation given 
by Nicodemus is found in the chapter above quoted, 
beginning with the sixteenth verse, as follows: "And we 
found the account of the creation and at what time he 
made the heaven and the earth, and the first man, Adam, 
and from thence to the flood were two thousand two hun- 
dred and twelve years, and from the flood to Abraham, 
nine hundred and twelve years, and from Abraham to 
Moses, four hundred and thirty years, and from Moses to 
David, the King, five hundred and ten years, and from 
David to the Babylonish captivity, five hundred years, and 
from the Babylonish captivity to the incarnation of Christ, 
four hundred years, the sum of all of which amounts to 
five thousand and a half (thousand)." 

A simple calculation will show that the total sum of 
these numbers is not 5,500 years, but 4,964 years, or 536 
less than 5,500. This would bring us to 536 years before 
Christ, which is the date of the birth of Cyrus, the event 
foretold. 

The Babylonish captivity mentioned as five hundred 
years after David and four hundred years before Christ 
(Cyrus) was not of necessity a captivity by Babylon, or the 
people of Babylon, but one like Babylon. For example: 
A Frenchman may have manners and habits that are 



THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 43 

English, without having ever seen England or an English- 
man. 

From Adam to flood 2,212 

From flood to Abraham . 9^^ 

From Abraham to Moses 43° 

From Moses to David 51° 

From David to Babylonish captivity 500 

From Babylonish captivity to Christ 400 

Total 4,964 

Cyrus was annointed by God, B. C 536 

5,500 
Cyrus was to do all of his will, and was called by the 
name of Cyrus some hundreds of years before he was 
born, by the prophets. 

1. Isaiah, chapter 45, i, 2, 3, 4: "Thus saith the 
Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have 
holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the 
loins of Kings; to open the doors before him, and the 
gates shall not be shut; 

2. "I will go before thee, and make the rugged places 
plain; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in 
sunder the bars of iron ; 

3. "And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, 
and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know 
that I am the Lord, which call thee by thy name, even the 
God of Israel. 

4. "For Jacob, my servant's sake, and Israel my 
chosen, I have called thee by thy name; I have surnamed 
thee, though thou hast not known me." 

The meaning of all this is that Cyrus is a Messiah, 
the anointed of God, and he creates somewhat of a 
revolution, perhaps as much of a revolution, in his day, as 
Jesus Christ did in his. There are four Messiahs — all 
revolutionists: Cyrus, Jesus of Nazareth, John Brown, 
the son of man, and another, like unto the son of man, who 
is yet to come, in sentiment, power and great glory. 

Revelation, chapter 14-14: "And I saw, and behold, 
a white cloud; and on the cloud I saw one sitting like 



44 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

unto a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and 
in his hand a sharp sickle." 

The "white cloud," as above quoted, is not like unto 
the warclouds (black clouds) which carried John Brown 
and his little band on their mission to Harper's Ferry, but 
a cloud of peace, clothed with sentiment, power, and great 
glory. 

Daniel, chapter 7, 13-14: "I saw in the night visions, 
and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like 
unto a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of 
days, and they brought him near before him. . 

14: "And there was given him dominion, and glory, 
and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations and languages 
should serve him; his dominion is everlasting dominion, 
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which 
shall not be destroyed." 

The son of man, spoken of above, will come at the 
end of the six thousand symbolic years, between the years 
1896 and 1901. He is the result of the three preceding 
revolutionists — Cyrus, 536 years before Christ; Jesus 
Christ at the 'beginning of the Christian era, and Home 
Missionary Society, with its revolutionary and abolition 
principles, in 1826. 

Matthew, chapter 26-64: "Nevertheless, I say unto 
you, henceforth ye shall see the son of man sitting at the 
right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven." 

As clouds, generally speaking, in this connection, 
signify troublous times, or warfare, the cloud upon which 
the "like unto a son of man" will come is not like these, 
but a white cloud, a cloud of peace (on a mission of peace), 
a financial cloud of trouble, or one other than that of 
blood, as "white cloud" means one that will terminate in 
a blessing. The one "like unto a son of man" on the white 
cloud, will terminate in the transfiguration spoken of by 
Mark. 

2. Mark, chapter 9, 2, 3, 4: "And after six days 
Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and John and 
bringeth them up into a high mountain apart from them- 
selves ; and he was transfigured before them." 

3. "And his garments became glistening, exceed- 
ing white; so as no fuller on earth can whiten them." 



THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 45 

4. "And there appeared unto them Elijah with 
Moses; and they were talking with Jesus." 

This last is the greatest revolution of all. He it is 
who will cast out the money-changers from the temple, 
mentioned by Matthew, Mark and John. We will give 
John's version: 

13. John, chapter 12, 13, 14, 15, 16: "And the pass- 
over of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to 
Jerusalem." 

14. "And he found in the temple those that sold 
oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money 
sitting." 

15. "And he made a scourge of cords, and cast all 
out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he 
poured out the changers' money and overthrew their 
tables." 

16. "And to them that sold doves he said, take these 
things hence; make not my Father's house a house of 
merchandise." 

This has never been fulfilled; it was mentioned by 
Matthew, Mark and John, and will be accomplished by 
one "like unto a son of man," mentioned by Daniel, and 
will begin some time in the year 1897 or 1898, as the end 
of the six ages (six thousand years) will come about that 
time. This does not refer to the son of man, as he came 
as a thief at night, in the year 1859, but as the power and 
fulfillment of the three preceding Messiahs. They were 
all revolutionists, and each created a renovating revolu- 
tion in his day. 

The high mountain that Jesus was transfigured upon 
symbolizes the United States, as great, or high, mountains 
always symbolize great civil governments. 

Revolution, transfiguration and resurrection, in sub- 
stance, mean the same. Without revolution there cannot 
be resurrection, and without resurrection there cannot be 
transfiguration. 

Following is a table of the age's of the seven symbolic 
antediluvan patriarchs and their meaning: 

Age of Adam 930 years. 

Age of Seth 912 years. 

Age of Enos 905 years. 



46 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Age of Canaan 910 years. 

Age of Mahalaleel 895 years. 

Age of Jared 962 years. 

Age of Enoch 365 years. 

5,879 years. 

And Enoch walked with God and was not, for God 
took him, in the year 1776, or in the beginning of the year 
1777. Enoch walking with God is a symbol of the adop- 
tion of the righteous Constitution of the United States. 
The astronomical year 5,879 is equal to our era — 1776 — 
and is the year in which God took Enoch ; and his walking 
with God was a symbol of the adoption of the righteous 
Constitution of the United States, and 120 years added 
to 1776, brings us to the end of the six ages, in 1896-7, and 
of the symbolic world, 5999-6000. The six thousand 
years are not literal years, as all of that vast creation that 
was created in six days (first of Genesis) was a creation of 
symbols for the express purpose of symbolizing the literal 
epoch and creation of Jesus Christ,, the second Adam. 

Genesis, chapter 1-14: "And let them be for signs, 
and for seasons, and for days and years." 

The year 4103 is the astronomical and symbolic year 
of the creation of Jesus Christ, the second Adam, called 
by the prophets the creation of God, and the astronomical 
year 5879, when God took Enoch, and which is equal to 
our era, which, of course, includes the year 1776; then add 
the age of the United States — 120 years — (the age of man), 
and we have 5,999, which is the end of the age of man, and 
the year 1896 of our present era, at which time comes the 
beginning of the first resurrection, which is the resurrec- 
tion of the living, or the transfiguration and transforma- 
tion, which will be accomplished within a period of about 
three years (possibly in the year 1900), which was sym- 
bolized by'the three days that Christ laid in the grave, and 
the three years that the son of man, John Brown, laid in 
the grave before his mission — that of liberating the 
slaves — was accomplished by the emancipation proclama- 
tion in the United States. Josephus says that the age of 
man (nations) would, after the time of Moses, attain to 
the age that Moses happened to live, which was 120 years, 



THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 47 

The antitypical Moses died in the year 1776, in our era, at 
which time began the United States, which is called man 
by the prophets; consequently the age of man will end 
120 years from the year 1776, which will be in the year 
1896, at which time began the transfiguration which the 
prophet Nahum calls the preparation of God. 

What Nahum, the prophet, means by the preparation 
of God is the rapidity with which the numerous parties — 
political and social — are springing into existence, all of 
which have for their watchword the cry of reform, which 
are the Salvationists ("the valiant men in scarlet"), the 
socialists ("the mighty men of the red shield") the break- 
ing up of party lines, and the formation of new political 
parties and the fusion, during the political campaign of 
1896; and also the sudden reformation of the doctrines 
preached by the ministers of all churches; all of which 
goes to show that the masses of the people are clamoring 
for reformation on one line or another, which signifies 
that the preparation of God, for the transfiguration, has 
begun. 

Genesis, chapter 6-3: "And God said, my spirit shall 
not strive with man forever, for that he also is flesh; yet 
shall his days be an hundred and twenty years." 

The passage above quoted symbolizes the strivings of 
his people, for one hundred and twenty years, or from the 
year 1776 to the resurrection of the living in 1899, when 
a better and clearer knowledge of God will be given to his 
people — the United States of Israel. Then the iniquities 
of the nation will be brought to light, when there will be 
a great cry for reform throughout the entire nation from 
that time forward, until all will know that they are his 
special people. 

Isaiah, chapter 66-6: "A voice of tumult from the city, 
a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth 
recompense to his enemies." 

That was the demand of the American colonies for 
justice from their governing despotic monarch before the 
revolution of 1776. 

Isaiah, chapter 66-7: "Before she travailed she 
brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered 
of a man child." This quotation symbolizes Zioh's right- 



48 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

eous Constitution that was adopted by the colonies, and 
which created the revolution of 1776. 

Isaiah, 66-8: "Wlio hath heard such a thing? Who 
hath seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? 
Shall a nation be brought forth at once? For as soon as 
Zion travailed, she brought forth her children." 

This signifies that she became a nation at once, and 
has been such ever since her declaration of independence. 
"Before her pains came she was delivered of a man child." 
This signifies that this country became a nation by the 
Declaration of Independence, before the war of the revo- 
lution, from 1776 to 1783. 

The principles set forth in the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence created the nation and caused the war of the 
revolution; it being a nation before the great struggle 
came — before her pains came. 

Daniel, chapter 7-2: "Daniel spake and said, I saw 
in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of 
heaven brake forth upon the great sea." 

3. "And four great beasts came up from the sea, 
diverse one from another." The four great beasts are the 
four empires that succeeded each other in the old Roman 
world. 

y-y. "After this I saw in the night visions, and, be- 
hold, a fourth beast." These night visions signify that the 
fourth beast would occupy the interval of the dark ages, 
1,260 years, the 1,260 sackcloth years that intervened be- 
tween the years 533 and 1793. "And behold a fourth 
beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and 
it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, 
and stamped the residue with his feet; and it was diverse 
from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten 
horns." The ten horns of this beast signify the ten gov- 
ernments, or kingdoms, that existed by delegated power, 
derived from some headship existing within themselves. 
They represent the ten governments that occupied the 
territory known as the ancient Roman earth, or world, 
when Rome was in its glory; and the vision extends to 
about the years 1776 and 1793, and perhaps longer. The 
ten kingdoms occupied this territory some time prior to 
the year 1793. 



THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 49 

Daniel, chapter 7: "I beheld till thrones were 
placed, and one that was ancient of days did sit; his rai- 
ment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure 
wool; his throne was like fiery flames, and the wheels 
thereof burning fire." The placing of the thrones is the 
building of the first thirteen States, out of the colonies. 
They are placed, that is, they are changed, and put in a 
dififerent position toward each other, and the rest of the 
globe. 

"And one that was ancient of days did sit." This 
one means the general government of the United States, 
sitting, or presiding, over all the States, or thrones. The 
words, "ancient of days," implies its priority of existence 
as a nationality of its kind. It had ceased to exist, but now 
rises into being again. The very coming of the ancient 
of days implies his absence from a position he once occu- 
pied. The restoration of Israel to nationality in the latter 
day was promised, and as that nationality was to be a 
Christian one, it is conclusive that the one that was ancient 
of days was the promised nationality of Israel restored — 
the democracy of Moses in a Christian dress. 

There have been many ancient republics, but that law 
delivered to Moses 1,491 years before Christ, by the 
Almighty himself; that created the most ancient repub- 
lican form of government recorded in history. This must 
be the one typified by Daniel's "ancient of days," in the 
seventh chapter of the book of Daniel, verse 10, which is 
as follows: "A fiery stream issued and came forth from 
before him; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and 
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the 
judgment was set, and the books were opened." 

The number of people that waited on the ancient 
of days as ministering servants plainly represent the peo- 
ple who composed this new nationality. Their number 
is distinctly stated to be thousand thousands. This sum is 
just three millions. It does not say that there were thou- 
sand of thousands, as the word "of" would have implied 
multiplication, but since it was omitted the addition of 
these numbers is rather implied. The "time times" is just 
three times, and so "thousand thousands" is just three 
thousand. Each thousand should be multiplied into itself, 



50 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

the same as the ten thousand times ten thousand of the 
wicked are, who stood before the ancient of days. Now, 
multiply each thousand by itself and add the sums and 
they will make just three millions, and are those who min- 
istered unto the ancient of days, and is the number of 
the population of the United States of Israel, or that the 
ancient of days contained in the year 1776, when the nation 
was born. Those who stood before the ancient of days 
were plainly they who were to be judged, and their num- 
ber is ten thousand times ten thousand, which is just equal 
to a hundred millions of people. The hundred millions of 
people that stand before the ancient of days to be judged 
are Europeans. This fact is seen from the very nature of 
the case. The ancient of days destroys the beast, which 
represents the Roman (European) earth, with its corrupt 
alliances. The judgment when it was set, and the books 
when they were opened, were set and opened on account 
of the ravenous character of the beast. 

The "ancient of days" was to have two epochs in his 
history. The first is that of the destruction of the beast. 
(A beast is a symbol of a despotic power). The sitting of 
"the ancient of days" is also a different epoch from that 
in which the judgpient was set, and the books were 
opened. 

These judgments will be administered by the United 
States on monarchy with both justice and mildness after 
the attainment of its great power. The sitting of the 
judgment on the beast represents the decision of the 
ancient of days to destroy monarchy. The opening of 
the books shows that democracy will bring up all the his- 
tory of monarchy, and on account of its universal char- 
acter in history will determine its doom, and it represents 
the actual beginning of the political judgment on Euro- 
pean monarchy. 

A man's foes are of his own household. When the 
prophets speak of a man they they do not mean a single 
individual, as man always sym'bolizes a nation with the 
prophets. The foes of the United States is the contraction 
of its circulating medium, thereby centralizing the power 
of wealth to such an extent that it rules legislation in its 
favor, to the extent of overthrowing the entire present 



THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 51 

monetary system that will never rise again; but a new one 
will be resurrected out of it. It will come soon after the 
half-hour silence in heaven; that half-hour silence will be 
a stagnation of some king — in the United States of the 
powers that be — which may be caused by a financial 
panic, for in its present famished condition it could never 
recover. 

Will the one who is ancient of days, with his burning 
wheels and flaming throne, answer in any way as a type of 
the United States? If not, what does he typify? Is there 
another nation that will answer to this description? No; 
there is not. "White garment" answers to our righteous 
Constitution, and his "white hair" answers to his ancient 
origin, and his "wheels of burning fire" to the rapidity 
with which we have taken first place among the nations 
of the globe. Before the year 1776 what was the pace of 
the nations? Were their motions like flames and their 
wheels like burning fire? Not at all ; the world was a slow- 
coach before our time. We are a cyclone compared with 
the times and nations before the year 1776. Navigation 
then was a snail, now it is a tempest; then it was a galley 
with oars, now it is a palace driven with superhuman and 
invisible force. Then all was sluggish ; now all is motion ; 
then all was ignorance, now all is information; then a 
pillar of cloud led the world; now a pillar of fire. 

The rise of this nation was the result of the birth of 
organized democratic liberty. Philosophy had pro- 
nounced it impossible and monarchy had scouted it as an 
idle conceit, yet it is here with great power. Here, sci- 
ence and art have sown seeds of perennial fruit to blossom 
now and ripen early in the approaching millennial sum- 
mer. Blot us from the globe with all of the influence we 
have exerted upon it, directly and indirectly, and black 
night would remain. Then monarchies would invite all 
hell to a feast of thanksgiving over an event so delightful 
to iniquity, and the remnant of Paganism would leap from 
decrepitude to youth, and despotism would embrace the 
globe in his confraternal arms, and all would dance with 
delight over the grave of their common and dreaded foe. 

The son of man came to the United States in 1826 and 
emancipated the slaves in 1863. The one "like unto a son 



52 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

of man"'will come in 1897-8 or 1899. He will cause the res- 
urrection of the living, or he will revolutionize the Consti- 
tution of the United States, which is called by the prophets 
the resurrection of the living, and which they also call the 
first resurrection, as the revolution that will come soon 
after in Europe will be the second resurrection, or the 
resurrection of the dead, as they are to rise from the dust 
of the earth, and the earth symbolizes Europe, the old 
Roman territory. 

This vision lasts until the thrones are placed (the 
thirteen original States), and one that was ancient of days 
did sit, and the same panorama held Daniel's gaze until 
one like unto a son of man came with the clouds of 
heaven, meaning our financial troubles fast approaching, 
and came to the one who was ancient of days, and they 
brought him near before him. (Daniel 7-13.) This is 
the fourth Messiah that creates a revolution. Cyrus, 
Christ and John Brown being the three preceding ones. 

Now, this one who came to the ancient of days was 
like unto a son of man. 

In the New Testament Jesus is called the son of God, 
and also the son of man, but Daniel says in 7-13, that he 
that came with the clouds (clouds signify w'ar of some kind) 
of heaven to the ancient of days was one like unto a son 
of man; consequently, he must come after the year 1776, 
as the anicent of days cannot be found in prophecy earlier 
than that date, and he will not answer to anything but the 
United States of America (the Israel renewed), and is the 
new Jerusalem. (A new Jerusalem is not an old one.) 

The second coming of Christ, or the son of man, was 
in 1826, as the Home Missionary Society, and kindred 
societies, and their influence went with John Brown to 
Harper's Ferry, when 33 years of age, or thirty-three 
years after 1826, in the year 1859. He came like a thief 
at night that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. He was 
crucified and rose again the third year (typified by three 
days) with power (the United States army) and great 
glory — with the Emancipation proclamation, which went 
into effect January ist, 1863. He fulfilled what was said 
of Christ, that he brought not peace, but a sword. Again, 
Matthew, 10-36: "A man's foes shall be they of his own 



THE DEMOCRACY OF MOSES. 53 

household/' The foes of the United States Government 
("man"). 

The one Hke unto a son of man that is to come in 
about 1897 or 1898, of course, will be some revolutionary 
order similar to that which influenced the son of man in 
his attack on Harper's Ferry, and which will be near three 
years in bringing about its reforms, which allotted three 
years was typified by the three days before Jesus was 
resurrected after his crucifixion, and the three years before 
the son of man arose from the grave with his emancipa- 
tion of slavery, in 1863. 

He (the son of man of 1859) came not for peace, but 
with a sword. He destroyed the iniquitous laws of his 
people, and he was hated and despised, as was his proto- 
type 1,859 years before. Further on in this volume we 
will show how the Scriptures make mention of the 
eighteen men that John Brown, the son of man, had with 
him at Harper's Ferry, and the three friends, or those of 
his men that did not cross the river and take part in the 
foray at the arsenal. 

The one like unto a son of man is like the one Daniel 
saw coming with the clouds of heaven to the ancient of 
days. His coming will date from the beginning of the 
first resurrection, or that of the living; his coming 
means the coming of the political and financial resurrec- 
tion and transfiguration which began in 1896 and be 
about three years in its transfiguration. 

"And they brought him near before him" (the ancient 
of days), signifies that the United States, as a power, will 
sit in judgment from that day on forever, even forever; 
for Daniel says that his dominion is that which shall not 
be destroyed. 

Isaiah, chapter 52, 14-15: "Like as many were aston- 
ished at thee (his visage was so marred more than any 
man, and his form more than the sons of men)." 

15. "So shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall 
shut their mouths at him; for that which had not been 
told them shall they see, and that which they had not 
heard shall they understand." "Marred more than the sons 
of men." This will apply to Christ, and also to the son 
of man (John Brown), and also to the United States, as 



54 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

this country was prepared for Israel, by the teachings of 
Christ, as he said he would prepare them a place. "And 
kings shall shut their mouths at him," was clearly foretold 
of this country, for kings, and the most powerful govern- 
ments, as can already be seen, are very cautious how they 
antagonize any position assumed by the United States. 

"Marred more than the sons of men." This govern- 
ment is called in prophecy the son of man, and will be so 
called for the first one hundred and twenty years of its 
existence. 

Many nations have been astonished at the United 
States at dififerent periods, especially when its ruin ap- 
peared inevitable, but like our miraculous prototype of 
old, it emerged every time with renewed vitality and in- 
creased confidence in national abilities. The saying of 
Ezekiel, 39-26, is being fulfilled: "And none shall make 
them afraid." (Make this Government afraid.) 

The Coming of the Son of Alan^ John Brown — Like 
a 771 i if at Night — 7n the Year Eighteen Hundred 
and Fifty-nine^ and Whose Coming Was Predicted 
by the Prophets. 

Apocryphal New Testament: Barnabas, Chap. 8, 9- 
10-11-12-13: "But you will say the Jews were circumcised 
for a sign, and so are all the Syrians and Arabians, and all 
the idolatrous priests, but are they therefore of the cove- 
nant of Israel? And even the Egyptians themselves are cir- 
cumcised." 

10. "Understand, therefore, children, these things 
more fully, that Abraham, who was the first that brought 
in circumcision, looking forward in the spirit to Jesus, cir- 
cumcised, having received the mystery of three letters." 

11. "For the Scripture says that Abraham circum- 
cised 318 men of his house. But what, therefore, was the 
mystery that was made known unto him?" 

12. "Mark first the eighteen, and next the three 
hundred. For the numeral letters of ten and eight are 
I H, and these denote Jesus." John Brown, the son of 
man, had at Harper's Ferry, in the year 1859, just eigh- 
teen men with him, thus denoting Christ. 

13. "And because the cross was that by which we 



COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. 55 

were to find grace; therefore he adds three hundred, the 
note of which is T (the figure of his cross). Wherefore 
by two letters he signified Jesus, and by the third his 
cross." 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. lo-i: "Abraham pursued 
after them (the four Assyrian Kings who captured Lot 
and his family) till, on the second day, he drove them in a 
body into Hoba, a place belonging to Damascus; and 
thereby demonstrated that victory does not depend on 
multitudes, and the number of hands, but the alacrity and 
courage of soldiers overcome the most numerous bodies 
of men, while he got the victory over so great an army 
with no more than 318 of his servants, and three of his 
friends; but all those that fled returned home inglo- 
riously." 

The actual force which John Brown had at Harper's 
Ferry consisted of only twenty-two men, including him- 
self, three of whom never crossed the river; that would 
leave just eighteen men with him in the foray at the ar- 
senal. 

Jesus Christ was a type of the son of man that was 
born in the year 1826, in the birth of the Home Mission- 
ary Society, and similar societies. When 33 years old (in 
1859) he came upon Harper's Ferry like a thief m the 
night. The servants of the high priest captured him and 
he was crucified (hung). He arose again the third day 
(year) in Lincoln's proclamation to free the slaves — exact- 
ly what he came to do — and his rising was with power and 
great glory. His coming was as the lightning shineth in 
the east and is seen even to the west (by telegraph), yet 
they knew him not. 

One hundred and thirteen years ago a native of Vir- 
ginia, a statesman, indeed, by nature and by training, said: 
"With what execration shoukl that statesman be loaded 
who, permitting one-half of the citizens to trample on the 
rights of the other, transforms those into despots and 
these into enemies. Can the liberties of a nation be deem- 
ed secure when we have removed their only firm basis — a 
conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties 
are the gift of God, that they are not to be violated with- 
out his wrath? 



56 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that 
God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever, that, con- 
sidering numbers, nature and natural means, only a revo- 
lution of the wheel of fortune is among possible events. 
That it may become probable by supernatural interfer- 
ence. The Almighty has no attributes that can take part 
with us in such a contest." 

This was the language of Jefiferson in his "Notes on 
Virginia," written in 1783. It was in the County of Jef- 
ferson (in Virginia) that Brown made his foray in 1859. 
He harbored in the county of Washington, in Maryland, 
for three months, and descended upon Jefferson County 
at the end of that time, and when the astonished succes- 
sors of Washington and Jefferson saw him first he held in 
his hand the sword of Washington and was enacting Jef- 
ferson's declaration of freedom in favor of the slaves, that 
the Scriptures might be fulfilled; and they were fulfilled 
with a vengeance in the years of war and disaster that fol- 
lowed. 

Washington'' s Historic Sword. 

After John Brown had taken possession of the Ar- 
senal on October i6th. 1859, about midnight, he dis- 
patched six of his men to capture Colonel Lewis W. 
Washington and his negroes. In capturing Colonel 
Washington they also seized that historic dress sword 
which had been given by Frederick the Great to George 
Washington with the memorable words: "From the oldest 
soldier to the greatest" engraved upon it. A well-known 
Congressman who interviewed him a few minutes after 
his (Brown's) capture, gives us the following: Approach- 
ing him I began the conversation with the inquiry: "Cap- 
tain Brown, are you hurt anywhere except on your head?" 
"Yes, on my side here," said he, indicating the place with 
his hand. (The principal wound of Jesus Christ was in 
his side). 

At the critical period of the civil war, when the issue 
was still undecided, save in the councils of God, at 'the 
close of 1862, Lincoln put forth his first edict of emanci- 
pation and followed it up January ist, 1863, with the final 
proclamation that the slaves in the rebellious States were 
from that day free. Brown had slept in his grave among 



COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. 57 

the Adirondack Mountains but three years when this 
triumph was realized. His friends gathered to celebrate 
so happy an event, at the house of one of his most faithful 
and active supporters in the Virginia campaign, George 
Stearns, of Middleford, Mass. It was one of the last of 
those meetings in which the old anti-slavery men and 
women came together, and rejoiced face to face. Garrison 
and Phillips, Emerson and Alcott, Dr. Howe and his wife, 
Mrs. Childs, Moncure Conway, Martin Conway, and 
many others, now dead or widely scattered. This gather- 
ing was antitypical of the Lord's Supper. 

Here is the son of man's (John Brown's) speech, 
which he made to the court that sentenced him to the gal- 
lows: "This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the valid- 
ity of the laws of God. I see a book kissed here which I 
suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. 
That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that 
men should do unto me I should do even so unto them. It 
teaches me further to remember them that are in bonds; 
as bound with them I endeavor to act up to that instruc- 
tion, I say I am too young to understand that God is any 
respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as 
I have done — as I have always freely admitted, I have 
done — in behalf of his despised poor, was not wrong, but 
right." This was Brown's authority for the capture oi 
Harper's Ferry. The same given by Ethan Allen at Ti- 
conderoga when he commanded surrender, 'Tn the name 
of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." He 
had pursued the same line of reasoning before this, and 
shortly after his capture. 

Following is an interview between Senator Mason 
and Brown shortly after the latter's capture relative to 
his raids: Senator Mason — "How do you justify your 
acts?" Capt. Brown — "I think, my friend, you are guilty 
of a great wrong against God and humanity, and it would 
be perfectly right for anyone to interfere with you so far 
as to free those you willfully and wickedly hold in bond- 
age. I do not say this insultingly." Senator Mason — "I 
understand that." Capt. Brown — "I think I did right and 
that others will do right also who interfere with you at any 
and all times. I hold that the Golden Rule: 'Do unto 



58 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Others as you would have them do unto you/ applies to 
all who would help others to gain their liberty." 

Lieut. Stuart's interview: "But you don't believe in 
the Bible?" Capt. Brown — "Certainly I do — I want you 
to understand, gentlemen, that I respect the rights of the 
poorest and weakest of the colored people oppressed by 
the slave system just as much as I do those of the most 
wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved 
me, and that alone. We expected no reward, except the 
satisfaction of doing for those in distress — the greatly op- 
pressed — as we would be done by. The cry of distress of 
the oppressed is my reason, and the only thing that 
prompted me to come here." 

There is Brown's authority for capturing Harper's 
Ferry. Does it look like the work of a criminal or that 
of a lawless man? No, but quite the contrary. It is very 
much like what a Christ would do or say. 

The son of man came on the war clouds of heaven, as 
was predicted by Daniel. He came in an age by no means 
graiid or noble in appearance, but it will be recorded and 
remembered when all the battles of the rebellion are for- 
gotten. His age has hardly yet begun; but it will con- 
tinue forever. 

Not even his closest friends suspected his great mis- 
sion. If they had, the Scriptures would not have been 
fulfilled, as he was to come as a thief in the night. He em- 
bodied all the more humane sentiments of later times. His 
faith in God was supreme, his belief in foreordination ab- 
solute, and his courage phenomenal. The emotion of 
fear seemed to be quite unknown to him, except in the 
form of diffidence. He was dififident of his power, in 
speech or writing, yet who of all his countrymen have 
uttered more effective or immortal words than he, him- 
self, and the societies that backed and encouraged him in 
money, arms, and in sentiment? 

John Brown was only a representative of the son of 
man that was embodied in the Home Missionary Society, 
Abolition, and all other kindred, humane and charitable 
orders of anti-slavery sentiment. Part of the service he 
has rendered to his country was by his heroic impersona- 
tion of traits, that all mankind recognize as noble. The 



COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. 59 

cause of the poor slave had need of all the charms that ro- 
mantic courage could give it. His defenders were treated 
with the same contempt that was attached to himself. 
They were looked upon with aversion by patriots; they 
were odious to trade, distasteful to fashion and learning, 
and impious in the sight of the churches. At a single 
stroke by Brown all this was changed. The cause that 
had been despised suddenly became hated, feared and re- 
spected; and out of this new fear and hatred the mission 
of Brown was accomplished. 

The frantic efforts of the South to defend its iniqui- 
tous system of slavery, ending by firing on Fort Sumpter, 
made Lincoln's emancipation proclamation possible. It 
would be fair to say that all people, in proportion to their 
sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with Brown, for it 
is impossible to see courage and disinterestedness, and the 
love that casts out fear, without sympathy. 

The very year of his coming is foretold by the proph- 
ets, and he is spoken of by Christ as the son of man com- 
ing on the clouds of heaven. The word "heaven" symbol- 
izes the United States throughout all the prophecies. He 
is also the one who comes "to the ancient of days" spoken 
of by Daniel, that sat on the right hand of power. His 
commission was one of the grandest ever assigned to any 
being on the globe, yet it was, in the sight of the laws of 
the land, theft, treason and murder. An unknown poet 
and prophet had written while Brown was yet alive, 
though condemned to death, as follows: 
"But, Virginians, don't do it, for I tell you that the flagon 
Filled with blood of old Brown's offspring was first 

poured by Southern hands, 
And each drop from old Brown's life-veins, like the red 

gore of the dragon, 
May spring up, a vengeful fury, hissing through your 

slave-worn lands. 

And old Brown, 
Osawatomie Brown, 
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his 

coffin down." 
Christ and the son of man were both revolutionists. 
Jesus Christ came to his people to revolutionize their old, 



6o ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

iniquitous institutions, and he says to them: "Think not 
that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send 
peace, but a sword." (Matthew, 10-34.) And his saying 
W'as fulfilled with a vengeance by the destruction of the 
greater part of themselves and their temple, by the Roman 
general, Titus, under Vespasian, in the years 70, 71 and y2 
A. D. and, as a nation, they have been obliterated from the 
world ever since. 

Matthew, 24, 30-31: "And they shall see the son of 
man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and 
great glory." 

31. "And he shall send forth his angels with a great 
sound of trumpet, and they shall gather together his 
elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the 
other." Matthew said these things after Jesus had been 
dead and ascended up to heaven for about fifty years; 
therefore, he is speaking of the coming of the son of man. 
Christ was a type of the son of man, but he was not the 
son of man himself. The son of man, John Brown, sprung 
from the testimony of Christ. 

The son of man was born in the year 1826, May loth 
(Home Missionary Society), and when 33 years of age 
(which was in 1859), he was crucified (hung), and as he 
was the antitypical Christ, the Jewish temple will be de- 
stroyed in the new Jerusalem (the United States), y2 or yT, 
years after the year 1826, which will be in 1898-9. Our 
present monetary system was typified by the old Jewish 
temple in Jerusalem, Palestine ; and this temple is the only 
house of worship that the Jews have worshipped in since 
the year 72-3 of the Christian era. The soldier that climbed 
on the shoulders of another and snatched somewhat out 
of material that was on fire, and wdthout waiting for 
orders, hurled the burning firebrand through a golden 
window that communicated with some of the Cloisters 
(States) on the north, typified the fusionists that endorsed 
W. J. Bryan and the silver wing of Democracy, July 27th, 
1896. The sentiment of that fusion will go forth until it 
destroys the present monetary system of the United 
States, and perhaps also that of the globe. The old tem- 
ple was fired, on the 27th of July, seventy years after the 
birth of Christ, and the fusionists endorsed the silver 



THE GOLDEN WINDOW FIRED. 6j 

wing of Democracy July 27th, just seventy years after 
the birth of the son of man (Home Missionary Society), 
in 1826; and the temple will be destroyed within three 
years after, 1896, by that monetary sentiment that was 
typified by the Roman general, Titus, son of Vespasian, 
when he destroyed the old Jewish temple. The birth of 
Christ does not agree with the beginning of the Christian 
era, yet the destruction of our present monetary system 
will be in the exact year after 1826, that the ancient Jewish 
temple was destroyed after the 'birth of Christ. The ob- 
scurity and uncertainty of the date of his birth is a part of 
the veils upon the scriptures. 

"Like unto a son of man." The language here used 
implies companions, or one of a certain number of the 
same kind. His time will be at the beginning of the 
transfiguration, and after the end of the age of ma.i, 
whose years are to he 120; and according to prophecy, he 
will create the greatest revolution that has ever been on 
the globe. The stroke that the monetary system will re- 
ceive at about that time in the United States will stagger 
the banking system of the entire globe, wdien the gilt- 
edged securities of to-day will become worthless for the 
want of money to represent them. Then will come a new 
order of things, as there is not gold and silver sufificient 
on the entire globe with which to liquidate 7 per cent, 
of its indebtedness at the present time, 1896. 

The gold coin of the globe would scarcely pay the na- 
tional debt of the British Empire alone; a majority of 
whose subjects are the most wretched of any upon the 
globe. 

Some may say that such great changes from the com- 
mon order would have to be brought about by a miraculous 
power, but in this event there is no promise of any such 
power, as such a thing would be as much out of place as 
the days of miracles are, and the miracles were only used 
in the Scriptures to illustrate through the mysterious veil 
the great events that were purposely hidden until the end 
of the six ages in the beginning of 1900, which is the end 
of the six thousand symbolic years, and the beginning 
of the millennial Sabbath of a thousand years, or the first 
resurrection. The great revolution will be accomplished 



62 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

without the aid of a miraculous power, as He that could, 
if necessary, employ that power will have all nations 
wound up in time for that event. 

As to the destruction of the Jewish temple by Gen- 
eral Titus, all modern historians tell us that it was de- 
stroyed seventy years after Christ, which is not correct, 
as the siege lasted about three years; the temple was set 
on fire in the year 70 after Christ, but that fire did not 
cause its destruction, as the siege lasted until the 71st 
and perhaps 73d year after Christ; for that siege Josephus 
is chief authority, and his writings are sacred, and like all 
sacred, prophecy, has the miraculous and the veil upon 
it, and as Christ was in the grave three days a symbol of 
three years, also, it was three years after the execution of 
John Brown before his great emancipation went forth. 

So the siege of Jerusalem might have lasted three 
years before the temple was destroyed, so in like manner 
it may be three years after the United States reached the 
age of 120 years allotted to it before it is resurrected, which 
will be the destruction of our present monetary system, 
and the complete overthrow of plutocracy, which will 
spread throughout all Europe. 

Zephania 1-14: "The great day of the Lord is near 
and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord. 
The mighty man (nation) crieth there bitterly." Is the 
son of man, John Brown, that came in 1859, hated more 
by the people he was sent to than Jesus Christ was b}^ 
the people to whom he was sent? The hatred was the 
same, as they were both radical revolutionists, and both 
of their lives were forfeited, and after their deaths the 
same intense hatred rankles in the hearts of each people 
that they were sent to revolutionize. 

The Constitutioit of the New State of Kansas — The 
Toting Alan Who Escaped N^aked^ Leaving His 
Linen Gai-jnent on the United States Senate Table^ 
in i8^g. 

John 18: I to 11: "When Jesus had spoken these 
words he went forth with his disciples over the brook 
Kidron where was a garden into which he entered, himself 
and his disciples." 

2. "Now Judas, also, which betrayed him, knew the 



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place; for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disci- 
ples." 

3. "Ju^i^s then, having received the band of soldiers 
and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, 
Cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons." 

4. "Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that 
were coming upon him, went forth, and saith unto them, 
'Whom seek ye?' " 

5. "They answered him, 'Jesus of Nazareth;' Jesus 
saith unto them, T am he.' And Judas also, which be- 
trayed him, was standing with them." 

6. "When, therefore, he said unto them T am he,' 
they went backward, and fell to the ground." 

7. "Again, therefore, he asked them, 'Whom seek 
ye?' And they said, 'Jesus of Nazareth.' " 

8. "Jesus answered, 'I told you that I am he; if, 
therefore, ye seek me, let these go their way.' " 

9. "That the word might be fulfilled which he spake, 
of those whom thou hast given me I lost not one." 

10. "Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew 
it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut ofi his 
right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus." 

The word Malchus means a Kingdom, or a nation- 
ality of some kind; and cutting his ear off signifies that 
the nation would become deaf in regard to the theft and 
murder that was committed at Harper's Ferry by the son 
of man, in 1859; and the healing of the ear symbolizes the 
interpretation of those things after the lapse of a few 
years. The healing of the ear is mentioned by Luke, in 
Chap. 22-51, as follows: "But Jesus answered and said, 
'Suffer ye thus far.' And he touched his ear, and healed 
him." 

Mark 14-48: "And Jesus answered and said unto 
them, 'Are ye come out as against a robber, with swords 
and staves to seize me? I was daily with you in the tem- 
ple teaching and ye took me not.' But this is done that 
the Scriptures might be fulfilled.' And they all left him 
and fled." 

"And they all left him and fled," was fulfilled in 1859, 
when all of his (John Brown's) supporters, left him to his 



64 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

fate. The Abolitionists, his disciples and brethren, all 
fled, or kept silent. 

Mark 14-51 : "And a certain young man followed with 
him, having a linen cloth cast about him, over his naked 
body. And they lay hold on him. But he left the linen 
cloth and fled naked." Now the account that Mark gives 
of the young man that escaped naked seems to be super- 
fluous and entirely out of place; and it certainly appears to ' 
be a trivial thing inserted into an account of a great event, 
and it has been called ridiculous by many unbelievers in 
the divinity of the Scriptures, and if it was not a symbol, 
we would have to agree with them on that point. But 
such is not the case; it symbolizes the territory of Kansas 
that escaped naked (not allowed admittance into the Un- 
ion) in that same year of the son of man, and was one of 
the events that agitated the people in that day. 

As the new Constitution (linen cloth) of Kansas, rati- 
fied by the people in October, 1859, was laid before Con- 
gress, at its session in that year; and so strong was the 
free State sentiment in the House that a bill admitting 
Kansas as a free State passed it by a vote of 134 to 73; but 
when the bill went to the Senate that body refused to pass 
it, so strong was the slavery sentiment among a majority 
of its members. The dying act of the party of slavery 
was the refusal of the Senate on the 7th day of June, i860, 
to take up the bill, by a vote of ^2 to 28. Thus the young- 
man (Kansas) escaped naked; leaving his linen garment 
on the Senate table. Garments are symbols of Govern- 
mental Constitutions. White linen garments symbolize 
pure Constitutions. These things are written in the his- 
tories of Israel (United States) along with many more, 
and when they are searched out and properly compared 
and put in order, then they will be testimony of the son 
of man, the same as the New Testament is a testimony 
of Christ. Then it will be the spirit of the prophets, and 
then will be fulfilled that which Isaiah says will be, in 
Chap. 25-7, which is as follows: "And he will destroy in 
this mountain the face of the covering that is cast over all 
peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations." A 
mountain, with the prophets, signifies a civil government. 
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heretofore been called profane, and not even suspected 
of being otherwise, will be found to be sacred, and the 
entire history of the United States will be found accurate- 
ly symbolized in them. 

The reason why the Scriptures are not believed to be 
divine by so many persons throughout all the civilized na- 
tions, is that if they did all believe in them, they (the 
Scriptures) would be a standing falsehood, and would not 
be fulfilled. As the prophets plainly state that they will 
not believe, though one from the dead should rise and de- 
clare it to them. If all mankind believed in the Scriptures, 
then the story of the veils in the temple, tabernacle, and 
the one that Moses was compelled to wear over his face 
on descending from Mount Sinai while talking to the peo- 
ple concerning the laws that he had received from God 
on the Mount, would be superfluous and false. 

2 Corinthians, Chap. 3, 12-13-14-15: "Having, there- 
fore, such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, and are 
not as Moses — " 

13. "Who put a veil upon his face, that the children 
of Israel should not look steadfastly on the end of that 
which was passing away." 

14. "But their minds were hardened; for until this 
very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil 
remaineth unlifted; which veil is done away in Christ." 

15. "But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, 
a veil lieth upon their heart." 

The Apostle Paul plainly asserts that Moses put the 
veil upon his face that the people w^ould not perceive the 
things that were passing away, and the new order of 
those that were approaching. And to those that read the 
old covenant (Old Testament) he says the veil of obscurity 
will remain. And to this very day, those who read the 
story of Moses remain in the same gloom, which gloom, 
or veil of obscurity, would be done away in Christ. We 
find Christ predicted in the old covenant just the same as 
we find the creation predicted; as it is a book, or coven- 
ant, foretelling by symbols the real creation of God, which 
began at the birth of Christ. And we find the story of 
Christ in the books that have been written since his birth, 
such as the New Testament, the Apocrypha, and the 



66 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEW'i:b. 

Apocryphal New Testament; the gospels, epistles, and 
all their pieces now extanit, attribb'ted to the first three or 
four centuries after Christ. Also we have to go to the 
works of Josephus for the l^'ey with which to unlock the 
liidden mysteries of the creation mentioned in the Book 
of Genesis; which was a creation of symbols/ symboliz- 
ing the creation of Christ; which creation began with the 
Christian era. 



The Symbols of Creation. 

Adam and Eve, and their sons, Noah and his sons, 
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Aaron, Moses, Job 
and Samson, the children of Israel, Saul, David and Solo- 
mon, and all the judges and the Kings of Judah and of 
Israel, and all their high-priests, these, together with their 
feasts, passovers, circumcisions, their wars, journeys, wan- 
derings, riddles, miracles, offerings, ceremonials, seasons 
and intervals of time, their ark, temple, tabernacle, and its 
curtains, veils, golden candle-stick, and all the vessels of 
the temple, the molten sea, the Canaanites, Philistines, 
and all the nations found in Canaan by the children of 
Israel, and the land of Canaan, and even Jerusalem, the 
devil, satan, and the dragon, were all symbols, and they 
were all for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and 
years; also the Archangel symbolized Christ and Christ 
symbolized the United States of Israel, which is the chief 
angel — agency of the Almighty. All things created be- 
fore Christ symbolized the. literal creation which began 
with the birth of Christ. 

The dragon, satan and devil symbolized monarchy and 
the things pertaining to it; in proof of this, we will refer 
to Job, as he symbolizes the United States, and its troubles 
in these days of the Lord's preparation by the scourges 
that are upon us, by adopting the customs of European 
monarchy. 

Job 1-6: "Now, there was a day when the sons (na- 
tions) of God came to present themselves before the Lord, 
and satan (monarchy) came also among them." 

7. "And the Lord said unto satan, 'Whence comest 
thou?' Then satan answered the Lord and said, 'From 
going to and fro in the earth (Europe) and from walking 
up and down in it.' " 

8. "And the Lord said unto satan, 'Hast thou con- 
sidered my servant Job (the United States), for there is 

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68 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man 
(nation)' "; mark, none like the United States in Europe, 
one that feareth God and escheweth evil.' " 

9. "We did eschew evil before the evils of these 
later days came upon us. Then satan answered the Lord 
and said, 'Doth Job fear the Lord for naught?' 

10. " 'Hast thou made an hedge about him, and 
about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? 
Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his sub- 
stance is increased in the land." There has been a hedge 
about us and our substance has increased as no other na- 
tion upon the globe, up to the beginning of our devilish 
troubles in these years of the Lord's preparation. 

• II. "But put forth thine hand now and touch all 
that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face." 

12. "And the Lord said unto satan, 'Behold, all 
that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not 
forth thine hand.' " 

Here God gives all that we have over to satan, which 
is the influence and devilish customs of European mon- 
archy, of which the principal curse is their contracted cur- 
rency system, that we have adopted, and it, like some 
monster ghost with putrid lips, has blown poison dew up- 
on all we have; while we as a nation, the monarchy of 
Europe is careful not to lay its hand upon any position 
that we may assume, except by the subtility of its com- 
bined monetary systems, and that only by the aid of our 
own corrupt combination that God has purposely allowed 
to come into power, that we may be transfigured and 
resurrected when we are brought so low that it will come 
as if by natural consequences. 

Our calamities are coming upon us as they did upon 
our prototype Job; while one messenger would be speak- 
ing there would come others, with stories of disasters. 

The death of his servants and young men symbol- 
izes the death of our institutions and young industries, 
that is serviceable to the commonality of our nation. 

22. "In all this Job sinned not nor charged God 
with foolishness." 

And Job (United States) still holdeth fast his integ- 



THE SYMBOLS OF CREATION. 69 

rity, although thou, satan (monarchy) movest me (the 
Lord) against him to destroy him without cause. 

Then satan says, "Put forth thine hand now, and 
touch his bone and his flesh and he will renounce thee to 
thy face." 

And the Lord said unto satan, "Behold, he is in thine 
hand; only spare his life." 

So Satan (monarchy) went forth from the presence 
of the Lord, and smote Job, with sore boils, from the 
sole of his foot unto his crown. 

The bone »nd flesh of Job symbolize our constitutional 
laws, that have and will be tampered with by our Congress, 
Senate, and Supreme Court, through the influence of 
combined mammon. Mark this, that the powers that 
rule us are allowing the Cubans to be slaughtered the 
same as the satan-devil, power of Europe (earth) is allow- 
ing the Armenians to be butchered. The powers of the 
money lenders will not allow their interests in Spain and 
Turkey to be endangered; they not understanding that 
the end of plutocracy is at hand. Then Job's three friends 
called to see him. So they sat down with him upon the 
ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a 
word unto him ; for they saw that his grief was very great. 

And Job answered and said, "Let the day perish 
wherein I was born, and the night which said there is a 
man child conceived." Job was a symbol of the United 
States (man child) that was conceived in 1776. The night 
of the seven years' war for independence. The United 
States had three friends then, France, Holland and Spain; 
and we are to have three friends in these last seven years 
of tribulation who are to sit upon the ground with us and 
say not a word until the seven years are ended. Consequent- 
ly, France, Spain and Holland may be our friends, as they 
are all liable to be republics at the end of that time. Then 
the Lord said to Job's three friends. Job 42-8: "Now, 
therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, 
and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a 
burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you; 
for him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your 
folly; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, 
as my servant Job hath." So Eliphaz the Temanite and 



70 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Bildad the Shuhite and Zaphan the Naamathite went and 
did according as the Lord commanded them, and the 
Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his 
friends. 

And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had be- 
fore. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all 
his sisters, and all they that had been acquainted before. 
"Now being acquainted before" means that the three 
friends, Spain, Holland and France have all been repub- 
lics, and all three aided the United" States (Job) to gain 
independence in 1776- 1783. 

"And did eat bread with him in his house; and they 
bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the 
evil that the Lord had brought upon him ; every man also 
gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold." 

"So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than 
his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels, 
and 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 she-asses." 

"He had also seven sons (young republics) and three 
daughters (three just institutions resembling churches). 
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the 
daughters of Job ; and their father gave them inheritance 
among their brethren, and after this Job lived 140 years 
and saw his sons and his son's sons, even four genera- 
tions." 

"So Job died, being old and full of days." 

Job was a symbol like all other men that are men- 
tioned in the Scriptures. Job symbolized the United States 
and as Job recovered from his evil time, and came into pos- 
session of twice as much as he had before he fell into the 
power of satan (monarchy). The recovery of Job from 
the influence of Pluto (Satan, devil, dragon, Europe), all 
of which mean the monetary combine of civilization, sym- 
bolizes our recovery from the influence of the plutocratic 
powers that are starving thousands upon thousands 
throughout all civilization; also Job's recovery symbol- 
izes our transfiguration when we are to have twice as 
much as we had before. 

Now mark this assertion: "Every man also gave him 
a piece of money." The above means that the conditions 
of civilization will be such that all men (nations) will be 



THE SYMBOLS OF CREATION. 71 

commercially obliged to be our friends. So every nation 
will contribute their piece of money to the United States, 
and our power among the nations of the globe will become 
greater than that of the Roman Empire when it was in its 
greatest glory; as the old Israel was only a type of the 
United States, which will be the Israel of God. 

When it is resurrected — transfigured and turned over 
to God by the testimony of Christ — then it will accord 
with the laws of Moses, as he was seen talking with Christ 
when he was transfigured on the high mountain. The 
high mountain symbolizes our great civil government 
at the time of our transfiguration. The downfall of plu- 
tocracy and the reformation of our monetary system will 
chiefly constitute our resurrection, which is transfigura- 
tion. Then will follow the resurrection of the dead, which 
means the dead nations of the earth — Europe, where sa- 
tan (monarchy) has been "going to and fro," and walk- 
ing up and down in it, since history began. 

II. Esdras 6-58: "But we, thy people, whom thou hast 
called thy firstborn; thy only begotten and thy fervent 
lover, are given into their hands." 

We are now in the hands of satan, dragon, devil, 
which is the influence of monarchical plutocratic Europe, 
but that influence is to be broken suddenly; soon after 
the end of the fruitless international monetary congress, 
that will soon assemble in Europe. 

Then will come to pass the saying of Zephaniah. 
Zephaniah 3-15: "The Lord hath taken away thy judg- 
ments, he hath cast out thine enemy the King of Israel; 
even the Lord is in the midst of thee; thou shaft not fear 
evil any more." 

Thus the power of our President, Congress and Su- 
preme Court, will be nearly all taken from them, and be- 
fore anything can become a constitutional law, the masses 
of the people will have to pass upon it, just the same as 
our great legislator, Moses, had to consult the majority 
of the children of Israel when they were typifying the 
United States, which is the greatest miracle that God ever 
created in the sight of any of his creatures upon this 
planet. 

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72 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

heaven is over and the great dragon is cast down, the old 
serpent, he that is called the devil and satan, the deceiver 
of the whole world — Europe; he was cast down to the 
earth — Europe and his angels; agencies were cast down 
with him. 

Now the devil and his angels, as they exist in the im- 
agination of the present theology, if real, would make a 
grotesque appearance in their celestial heaven, which also 
exists only in their imagination. 

Woe for the earth (Europe) and for the sea (the po- 
litical sea) because the devil (monarchy) has gone down 
unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a 
short time; after the fall of American plutocracy, the Euro- 
pean dragon will be in a greater rage and fear than ever 
before, and Christianity (woman) of Europe will be perse- 
cuted. The woman (Christianity) brought forth the man 
child. The man child symbolizes the United States, which 
was brought forth by the Christian churches preaching 
the testimony of Christ. 

Revelation 12-17: "And the dragon waxed wroth 
with the woman, and went away to make war with the 
rest of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, 
and hold the testimony of Jesus, and he stood upon the 
sand of the sea." 

Monarchy (dragon) will stand upon the political sea 
of Europe and make war upon the remnant of Christian 
Democracy that remains in Europe, which is the seed of 
the woman, and of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and of Moses, 
the great democratic legislator. 

Esdras 7-30: "And the world (Europe) the territory 
of the old Roman earth, shall be turned into the old si- 
lence seven days (years) like as in the former judgments, 
so that no man (nation) shall remain." 

The above means the seven years tribulation that is 
now hastening upon the world (Europe) which will be the 
destruction of every monarchy in Europe. 

Esdiras 7-31 : "And after seven days (years) the world 
(that part of Europe) that awaketh not shall be raised up 
(the law of Moses will be adopted) and that shall die that 
is corrupt." 

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tHE SYMBOLS OF CREATION. 73 

of years, yet the greater part of them are only known as 
profane histories. All the churches are founded upon 
the old and new testaments, and they call them canonical, 
and some others they call Apochryphal; the latter they 
have little regard for, and there are but few who ever look 
at them. The books of Jasher and Enoch, and the sixth 
and seventh books of Moses are scarcely known to be in 
existence; then, of course, they are not thought to be sa- 
cred by any of the churches, or they would have publish- 
ed them the same as the books of the Old and New Testa- 
ments; yet up to this time that would have been useless, as 
all theology has not yet comprehended the first chapter 
of Genesis, not even the 14th verse, which reads, "And let 
them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and 
years," 



The Symbolic Creation of the Six Ages. 

Genesis 1-15: "And let them be for lights in the fir- 
maments of the Heaven (the United States) to give light 
upon the earth (Europe) and it was so." 

Gold and silver have been sought after by all civiliza- 
tion since there was a recorded history. And the esti- 
mated amount of gold and silver in circulation upon the 
globe is eight billion dollars, while the number of men, 
both freemen and slaves, that have spent their lives in 
search of the precious metals are beyond estimation, but 
the numbers are certainly prodigious ; perhaps an average 
lifetime of a man for each any every dollar now in circula- 
tion would be much too small an estimate. 

The Almighty has given his Scriptural histories to 
lift man above the worship of gold, silver, wood and stone, 
or any and all kinds of idols. It is evident that the Scrip- 
tures were not intended to reach the immediate vicinity 
of the heathen, who literally bow down before material 
idols, but to the most educated — even the most practically 
educated, as there are many men of great education, yet 
there are few of them not bound to some creed and they 
dare not step beyond its bounds even if they possessed 
the requisite amount of liberal information. All the pos- 
sessions of Christ were included in his liberal information 
of which the Christian theology of to-day does not pos- 
sess, neither will it as long as jealousy, bigotry, and fanati- 
cism remain and prevail with it. 

The Scriptural law of God was given to man, not lit- 
erally, word for word, but in allegory, hieroglyphics, sym- 
bols, signs, numerals and miracles, of which there were no 
beginning until the literal creation, which did not begin 
until the birth of Christ, as he is called the second Adam. 
Thus man was left apparently to be his own free agent, 

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while translating, deciphering and comprehending the 
laws of God. 

The veils of the temple, tabernacle, and the one that 
Moses wore upon his face, are sufficient to prove that the 
Scriptures were to remain under a cloud for a time. If 
the Scriptures were literal, plain and distinct, then man 
would not have been his own free agent to do good or 
evil, but an abject slave, which is absolutely contrary to 
all the laws of God. The Scriptures teach us that God 
v/ill accept of a willing sacrifice, and that he will not ac- 
cept of an unwilling servant; neither is an unwilling gift 
acceptable with him. 

'Men are not yet advanced far enough in science and 
■civilization to suocessfully decipher the sacred, political 
Scriptural histories, .and compare their sym'bolism'S with 
the history of struggling democracy, since the literal crea- 
tion began, with the birth of Christ. The old repu'blic of 
Israel under the democracy of Moses symbolized the be- 
ginning of the parliamentarian spirit of democracy in the 
year 1656 under Cromwell, which landed exactly three 
hundred (a mythical number) emigrants (antitypical chil- 
dren of Israel) at Savannah, Georgia, in the year 1736, just 
eighty years after 1656, which eighty years was two-thirds 
of Moses' life. Then Moses and his antitypical children of 
Israel wandered in the wilderness of America forty years, 
until the year 1776, when Moses died at the age of 120 
years, as Moses symbolized the old colonial democracy 
*-hat was compelled to die or give place to that of the re- 
public of the United States, in the year 1776, which sym- 
bolized the death of Moses, as that colonial spirit (eye) 
had not grown dim nor its vitality ceased in the least. 
Then Joshua took command and marched seven consecu- 
tive times around the walls of Jericho before they fell, 
which symbolized the seven years' war of the Revolution 
before the walls of monarchy fell in the year 1783. 

When men are advanced far enough to look beyond 
the present staggering theology, and read the Scriptures 
which contain the exact political history of the great lit- 
eral Israel of the United States from the birth of Christ, 
which was the beginning of the literal creation, as the crea- 
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76 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ten one to symbolize the literal creation of God, for in 
Christ were to be all things, even the Heaven and Earth 
(World-Europe) have been created si-nce that time. 

In Josephus we find that the life of man after Moses 
was to be the exact number of years that Moses hap- 
pened to live, and that was 120 years. 

Man, in the prophecies, symbolizes a nation, and the 
United States of Israel was born at the death of Moses; 
consequently our death began in July, 1896. Then we will 
hear the death rattle of the nation, which may continue 
for seven years, as the struggle for independence lasted 
seven years. The earth (Europe) will reel to and fro like 
a drunkard, and it will be removed like a cottage, and 
the powers of Heaven (United States) will be shaken. 
Then will be seen the sign of the son of man coming with 
the clouds (troubles of the United States) of Heaven with 
power and great glory. Then will come the resurrection. 
It will be what the prophets call the resurrection of the 
living, as that is to come before that of the dead. A repub- 
lic is called the living, and a monarchy that of the dead. 
All the earth (Europe) is to be resurrected into republics, 
or a republic; the latter occurring soon after our resurrec- 
tion. 

Then men will not spend their labor and lives after 
gold and silver for the purpose of a medium of exchange, 
when our resurrected government can so easily put its 
stamp of legality upon some more convenient material. 



Josephus Shortens the Years. 

As Scriptural chronologers have always varied to the 
extent of some hundreds of years, and as the Scriptures 
have ever been veiled, our chr<9nology may vary in some 
of its unimportant parts for the want of time and skill. Our 
chronology is an archetype, and is founded upon the rock 
of ages, the beginning of the literal creation of God, which 
is symbolized by the sacred, allegorical, Scriptural his- 
tories, chief of which are the Apochryphas and the works 
of Flavins Josephus, by which we are enabled to pene- 
trate a few of the veiled mysteries of the older prophecies. 

According to Josephus, we contract the allegorical 
ages before Christ and then lap them over onto the literal 
ages since Christ, who was the second Adam, and the be- 
ginning of the literal creation of God, which was symbol- 
ized by the allegorical creation during six days (ages) 
when the heaven and the earth and the things that were 
there, and therein created, of which all were symbols, to 
symbolize the literal creation of God, which began with 
the birth of Christ, for in Christ are all things. 

Antiquities of the Jews. 

Book I.-III., Vol. I.: "This calamity happened in 
the six hundredth year of Noah's government (age) in 
the second month, called by the Macedonians Dius, but 
by the Hebrews Marhesven; for so did they order their 
year in Egypt. But Moses appointed that Nisan, which 
is the same with Xanthicus, should be the first month for 
their festivals, because he brought them out of Egypt in 
that month. So that this month began the year as to all 
the solemnities they observed to the honor of God, al- 
though he preserved the original order of the months as 
to selling and buying, and other ordinary afifairs. Now, 
he says that this flood began on the twenty-seventh (sev- 
enteenth) day of the forementioned month; and this was 

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78 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

two thousand six hundred and fifty-six (one thousand 
five hundred and fifty-six) years from Adam, the first man; 
and the time is written down in our sacred books, those 
who then Hved having noted down with great accuracy 
both the births and deaths of illustrious men." 

Thus Josephus shortens the days (years) to the ex- 
tent of 1,100 years. 

Then Mark says, in Chapter 13-20: "And except the 
Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been 
saved; but for the elect's sake w^iom he chose, he short- 
ened the days." 

Who are the Lord's elect? and who are they that he 
has chosen? An Israelite is one who has prevailed with 
God. The United States is his Israel, because it has 
adopted the ancient democracy of Moses, the great law- 
giver, who was ordained by God. 

Christ says in John 14-2: "In my Father's house are 
many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you, 
for I go to prepare a place for you." 

Then his chosen are to be found where there are 
many mansions, which symbolize many states and re- 
ligions of Christ. The shortening of the days unexpect- 
edly brings the resurrection and transfiguration of his 
chosen people of the United States (Israel) in aibout 
three years after the United States was 120 years old, 
which will be a political and financial one, and it will stag- 
ger and finally destroy the financial systems of the globe, 
especially the earth (Europe) as the resurrection of th,; 
dead is to come after that of the living; the nations of Eu- 
rope are the dead, as they are asleep in the dust of the 
earth (Europe), where the serpent (dragon, satan, devil) 
has been going to and fro in the earth (Europe) and from 
walking up and down in it, which symbolizes monarchy 
in the dead nations of Europe. The United States is sym- 
bolized by the living, also the "Ancient of Days" symbol- 
izes the United States, as its Constitution is founded upon 
the ancient democracy of Moses. 

All the things created before Christ were symbols, 
even the heaven and the earth, as the heaven was a symbol 
of the United States and the earth was a symbol of Eu- 
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JOSEPHUS SHORTENS THE YEARS, 79 

ancient Roman earth or world, in the days when it was 
known as the Roman world or earth, as in Luke 2-1: 
"Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a de- 
cree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be 
enrolled." The first earth that was created symbolized 
the Roman earth before Christ, which continues in alle- 
gory and will until the earth (Europe) and the works 
therein are burned (politically and financially) up. The 
time of destruction is right at hand, even at the door, and 
the door is wide open. The ark (covenant) alliance of 
the nations of the earth is now resting upon Mount Ararat 
(Armenia) Eastern question. The Graeco-Turkish war 
is the door of the ark. Noah and his family (the nations 
of Europe) will soon come out, then they (Noah) will 
awake from his wine, and curse his younger son Cain, 
the son of Ham (who was a symbol of the Turks), who 
were symbolized by the vagabond and wanderer in the 
earth (Europe). 

Genesis ii-i : "And the whole earth (Europe) was of 
one language (by their alliances they are of one design), 
and of one speech (one sentiment), and it came to pass, as 
they journeyed east (adopted the laws and customs of 
Asia), that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and 
they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, 
let us make brick, and burn them throughly." 

"And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for 
mortar, and they said. Go to, let us build up a city, and a 
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven (United States), 
and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad 
upon the face of the whole earth (Europe)." 

Now their first proposition is to burn their brick 
throughly, instead of thoroughly; secondly, they have 
brick instead of stone; thirdly, they have slime instead of 
mortar. 

The city and tower which the European nations are 
building to reach the United States is coming into view 
with a vengeance; it is their many alliances and their 
great combination. 

The Lord has not confounded the language of all the 
earth (Europe) because they are yet building the tower of 
Babel, and they are yet all of one design, which symbol- 



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izes the one language; tnat language is the many alliances 
which form the great combination of the devil , who sym- 
bolizes monarchy in all of its hellish designs; chief of 
which is its enslavement of the commonality of mankind 
by contracting the volume of the circulating medium of 
exchange whereby they control the markets of the globe. 
"And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, 
which the children of men builded." 

"And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people, and 
they have all one language; and this is what they begin 
to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, 
which they purpose to do." 

"Go to, let us (when the Lord speaks of an angel, or of 
us, he means his people, Israel, which are those of the 
United States, the angel (agency) always proceeds from 
his special and peculiar people) go down, and there con- 
found their language, that they may not understand one 
another's speech." 

"So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence 
upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build 
the city." 

"Therefore was the name of it called Babel, because 
the Lord did there confound the language of all the 
earth (all Europe)." 

"And they left off to build the city; therefore was the 
name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there con- 
found the language of all the earth." 

Now there never was a tower of Babel, only the 
city was called Babel. The children of men (nations) be- 
gan to build a city and tower on the plain of Shinar, but 
neither had a name; but the city was finally called by the 
name of Babel, after the Lord confounded their language. 

The proposed tower reaches heaven (United States) 
as designed by the great combine of Europe, both mone- 
tary and monarchical, as we have adopted some of their 
statutes and many of their customs, which has caused our 
present monetary afflictions, of which Job symbolized 
when he was afflicted by satan, as satan, serpent, dragon 
and devil, symbolize monarchy. 

But our deliverance will come soon ; the two national 
enactments which we will hurl against the monetary com- 



JOSEPHUS SHORTENS THE YEARS. 8i 

bine of the devilish, satanic monarchy of Europe 
(earth). The two enactments were symboUzed by the 
breaking down of the two middle pillars by Samson which 
supported the temple of Dagbn on the day when the lords 
of the Philistines gathered there to olTer a great sacrifice 
unto Dagon, their god. 

The blindness of Samson symbolizes our adversities 
prior to the two enactments which confounded satan 
(monarchy) and its monetary combinations in the earth 
(Europe). 

Judith 13-8: "And she smote twice upon his neck 
with all her might, and she took away his head from him." 

Judith 13-9: "And tumbled his body down from the 
bed, and pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and 
anon after she went forth, and gave Holofornes' head 
to her maid." 

Now the two strokes of Judith which severed the 
head from the body of Holofernes symbolize the same 
event that Samson did when he took hold of the two mid- 
dle pillars of the house of Dagon and threw it down upon 
the men and women, and upon all the lords of the Philis- 
tines, All the lords mean that all nations of Europe will 
be affected by the two strokes (enactments) and the wom- 
en (churches) and all the titled lords, and all the mone- 
tary lords; these, along with all monarchy will be over- 
thrown ; for these are the days of the Lord's preparation. 

Nahum 2-3: "The shield of his mighty men is made 
red, the valiant men are in scarlet; the chariots flash with 
steel in the day of his prepa'ration." The Salvation Army 
is the valiant men in scarlet; they are there now, all or- 
ganized and ready for their valiant work, as soon as the 
two enactments by the United States prepares the way. 

And then the socialistic, red republican, mighty men's 
shield will be made red; then all the earth (Europe) will 
quake; and then will come to pass second Esdras 6-22: 
"And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the 
full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty." This 
means that the corrupt institutions of European monar- 
chy will collapse, and its supposed great wealth will be 
found wanting, as aside from the soil and the buildings 
thereon, their wealth is founded on paper, which in that 



82 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

day will be worth no more than blank paper; even the no- 
bility and their titles will all become worthless in the day 
of the Lord's preparation. 

II. Esdras 6-23: "And the trumpet shall give a 
sound, which, when every man (nation) heareth, they shall 
be suddenly afraid." 

This trumpet is a world-wide signal that will make 
all the nations of Europe afraid. 

II. Esdras 6-24: "At that time shall friends fight 
one against another like enemies, and the earth (Europe) 
shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the 
springs of the fountains shall stand still, and in three hours 
they shall not run." 

Some of the Mohammedans dwell in Europe, but all 
lAirope does not fear them; consequently, we will assign 
their fear and dread to His mighty men whose shield is 
niade red, which is the red republicans; they all dwell in 
the midst of the earth (Europe). 

The fountains of the springs will stand still for three 
hours. Now, three hours is one-eighth part of a day, and 
a day is as a year, or a thousand years with the Lord, yet 
only in the creation have we found a day to symbolize a 
thousand years. We reckon the three hours one-eighth 
part of a day (year) and one-eighth part of a year is about 
forty-five days ; hence, there will be some kind of a gen- 
eral stagnation in Europe for forty-five days. 

II. E'sdras 6-25: "Whoever remaineth from 
all these that I have told thee shall escape, and see my sal- 
vation, and the end of your world." 

This means that all Europeans that escape the trou- 
bles mentioned will see the end of their world (Europe). 

II. Esdras 6-26: "And the men (nations) that are 
received shall see it, who have not tasted death from their 
birth ; and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, 
and turned into another meaning." 

Signifying the nations of a republican form of gov- 
ernment, who shall maintain their existence throughout 
the present fast approaching preparation, or the coming 
night of thick darkness upon the earth (Europe) which 
will remain for seven years, then will come the great mil- 
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JOSEPHUS SHORTENS THE YEARS. 83 

earthquake; then the nations that have stood the shock 
shall see my salvation; meaning the perfections of our 
republic over that of a monarchy; then the hearts of their 
inhabitants shall be turned into another meaning, and 
that meaning will be a republic of the people, by the peo- 
ple, and for the people; which is all the salvation there 
ever was. It is all the salvation there is mentioned in any 
of the Almighty's Sacred Books, and there are many of 
the^m, many more than have ever entered the mind of man. 
Our present form of government has nearly run its 
course for what it was created; then comes the resurrec- 
tion and transfiguration, sometimes called the millennium, 
of which all are purely political, and not spiritual, as all 
theology has been teaching. 



The Sun and Moon Stood Still. 

Joshua 10-13: "And the sun stood still and the moon 
stayed until the nation had avenged themselves of their 
enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher?"* 

Book of Jasher 88-64: "And the Lord hearkened to 
the voice of Joshua, and the sun stood still in the midst of 
the heavens, and it stood still six and thirty moments, and 
the moon also stood still and hastened not to go down a 
whole day." 

Jasher 88-65: "And there was no day like that, before 
it or after it, that the Lord hearkened to the voice of a 
man, for the Lord fought for Israel." 

Joshua 10-12: "Then spake Joshua to the Lord in 
the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before 
the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, 
Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the 
Valley of Aijaion." 

Verse 13: "And the sun stood still, and the moon 
stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their 
enemies. Is not this written in the Book of Jasher? And 
the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to 
go down about a whole day." 

Verse 14: "And there was no day like that before it 
or after it. that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a 
man; for the Lord fought for Israel." 

There was no day like that before or afterwards. Our 
Constitution was afterw^ards amended, so that the same 
danger might never occur again. 

In the year 1800 a Republican Congressional caucus 
nominated Thomas Jefiferson and Aaron Burr, for Presi- 
dent, being the first presidential nomination in that way 
in the United States; the object being to give the Presi- 



*In the Book of Joshua there are two a's in Jashar and only one 
in the Book ot Jasher. 

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THE SUN AND THE MOON STOOD STILL. 85 

dency and Vice Presidency to one political party. Jefifer- 
son and Burr each received 73 votes, Adams 65, Pinckney 
64, and John Jay i, A Rhode Island elector of the Fed- 
eralist party, seeing the opportunity of making a tie on 
Jefferson and Burr, voted with the JefTersonian Repub- 
licans, thus accomplishing the designs of the Federalist 
party, by throwing the election into the House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

A long and bitter contest followed. Thirty-five times 
the voting went round and the hour had nearly come 
when, if a President had not been chosen the goven? ~ient 
would have been destroyed; but on the thirty-sixth ballot 
Jefferson received a plurality, and the life of the nation was 
preserved. The extreme Federalists desired to prevent 
any election, and leave the President of the Senate the act- 
ing President for an interregnum. 

But Jefferson and his friends were determined, one 
and all, that the day such an act was passed, the Middle 
States would arm, and prevent any and all usurpations of 
the kind. The above were the substance of Jefferson's 
own words, and John Randolph afterwards added color 
and detail, when he said, "Had we not the promise of 
Dark's Brigade and of the arms at Harper's Ferry?" 

The Presidential fight in the year 1800 was symbol- 
ized by the fight between Joshua and the Amorites. Josh- 
ua the Jeffersonian Republicans, and the Federalist that 
of the Amorites. We have shown in other parts of this 
volume that Joshua symbolized the political ruler of the 
United States from 1776 until 1801, an interval of twenty- 
five years. 

In prophecy the President symbolizes the sun, as he 
is the most conspicuous luminary of the nation; and the 
Vice President is the next, and he is symbolized by the 
moon. 

The Jeffersonian Republicans' doings were in sight of 
all the people (all Israel) in holding out until they obtained 
the desired plurality on the thirty-sixth ballot; which was 
symbolized by the six and thirty moments that the sun 
and the moon stood still until the nation shall have re- 
venged itself upon its enemies. (See the 88th chapter in 
the Book of Jasher, and the loth chapter in the Book of 



86 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Joshua.) The six and thirty moments symbolize thirty- 
six times or thirty-six periods of time; so many essential 
elements; deciding points, so many facts, considerations, 
or influential circumstances. 

Our President and Vice President, who were sym- 
bols of the sun and moon, stayed or stood still, until the 
Republicans, led by JefTerson, gained the victory over 
their enemies by gaining the plurality on the thirty-sixth 
ballot. • 

The party of the Federals was styled an enemy of Israel 
because the members favored a centralized form of gov- 
ernment, which was in direct opppsition to the laws of 
Moses, the only salvation promised to the human family, 
as Moses was the great law giver. Flavins Josephus calls 
Moses our great legislator, and Josephus was an Ameri- 
can historian. By this we mean that the works of Jose- 
phus are a complete history of the United States. So do 
Jasher, and Enoch, in their books, but not so minutely; 
also the Apocrypha and the Apocryphal New Testament 
have the same history, but more in allegory. 



Flavius Josephus Who Symbolizes the United States 
Treasury Department. 

As we have quoted largely from the works of Jose- 
phus, we will teli our readers who Flavius Josephus was, 
or at least what he symbolized. Flavius Josephus was 
born of the family of our United States treasury. 

Life of Flavius Josephus, Verse i.: Now I am not 
only sprung from a sacerdotal family in general, but from 
the first of the twenty-four courses. (Washington's first 
administration was the first of the twenty-four courses, as 
McKinley's is the twenty-fourth.) 

The following is an account of the birth of Josephus: 
An independent treasury bill, rejected at a special ses- 
sion of Congress in the year 1837, was renewed again in 
the year 1840, by an eminent statesman, combined with 
the strong and repeated arguments in President Van Bu- 
ren's message. This caused the Senate, 23d of January, 
and the House, June 30th, 1840, to pass upon it, and 
from that date originated whatsoever we have had of an 
independent treasury. Thus Flavius Josephus, the histor- 
ian, was born in the year after Christ, 1840. 

In proof of Josephus being a symibol of all there has 
ever been of an independent United States- Treasury since 
the year 1840, we give the following extracts from the life 
of Josephus: 

Verse 2: "Moreover, when I was a child, and about 
14 years of age, I was commended by all for the love I 
had to learning; on which account the high priests and 
principal men of the city came then frequently to me to- 
gether, in order to know my opinion about the accurate 
understanding of points of law." 

The fourteenth year of Josephus' age would be in 
1854, when the United States Treasury Department was 
consulted 'by the chief officers of the nation. 

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88 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

"And when I was about i6 years old, I had a mind to 
make trial of the several sects that were among us." 

Josephus was i6 years old in the year 1856, from 
which time our treasury had hard fare for about three 
years, until it was 19 years old, in the year 1859, 

"These sects are three; the first is that of the Phari- 
sees; the second, that of the Sadducees; and the third, that 
of the Essens, as we have frequently told you; for I 
thought that by this means I might choose the best, if I 
were once acquainted with them all; so I contented my- 
self with hard fare, and underwent great difficulties, and 
went through them all. Nor did I content myself with 
these trials only, but when I was informed that one, whose 
name was Banus, lived in the desert, and used no other 
clothing than grew upon the trees, and had no other food 
than what grew of its own accord, and bathed himself in 
cold water frequently, both by night and by day, in order 
to preserve his chastity, I imitated in those things, and 
continued with him three years. So when I had accom- 
plished my desires, I returned back to the city, being now 
19 years old, and began to conduct myself according to 
the rules of the sect of the Pharisees, which is of kin to the 
sect of the Stoics, as the Greeks call them." 

The United States Treasury began 19 years after 1840, 
in the year 1859, to assume some of the more ancient and 
strict ceremonials than it had ever assumed before, of 
which varied but little until about 1866. 

"But, when I was in the twenty-sixth year of my age, 
it happened that I took a voyage to Rome, and this on 
the occasion which I shall now describe. At the time 
when Felix was procurator of Judea, there were certain 
priests of my acquaintance, and very excellent persons 
they were, whom on a small and trifling occasion he had 
put into bonds, and sent to Rome to plead their cause be- 
fore Caesar. These I was desirous to procure deliverance 
for, and that especially because I was Informed that they 
were not unmindful of piety towards God, even under 
their afflictions, but supported themselves with figs and 
nuts." 

A voyage to Rome symbolizes a bill that is brought 
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FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. 89 

and sanction of the administration that happens to be in 
power at the time Josephus took a voyage to Rome, in 
1866, when he was 26 years of age. 

"Accordingly I came to Rome, though it was through 
a great number of hazards by sea; for, as our ship was 
drowned in the Adriatic Sea, we that were in it, being 
about 600 in number, swam for our Hves all the night; 
when upon the first appearance of the day, and upon our 
sight of a ship of Cyrene, I and some others, eighty in all, 
by God's providence, prevented the rest, and were taken 
up into the other ship." 

The ship that Josephus (our treasury) took passage 
on to Rome had aboard besides Josephus, as passengers, 
about six hundred banking concerns; but Josephus says, 
that by the providence of God they were all shipwrecked 
and drowned but himself and seventy-nine others, who 
swam all night and at daybreak were picked up by a ship 
of Cyrene, which symbolizes about eighty national banks 
that were created about that time. 

The ship of Gyrene symbolizes a vicious, Oriental 
banking system which our national banking system and 
its effects upon the commonality of the nation is antitypi- 
cal. 



Slavery in the United States. 

Book of Jasher 88-50: "Only the inhabitants of 
Gibeon were greatly afraid of fighting against the Israel- 
ites lest they should perish, so they acted cunningly, and 
they came to Joshua and to all Israel, and said unto them. 
We have come from a distant land, now, therefore, make 
a covenant with us." 

The Gibeonites symbolize the institution of slavery 
in the United States, after the declaration of independ- 
ence, and those who had property in slaves acted cun- 
ningly in advocating the antiquity of its origin, which was 
symbolized by the long distance in which the Gibeonites 
had come to make their treaty with Joshua, after the cross- 
ing of the Jordan in 1776. 

Jasher 88-51: "And the inhabitants of Gibeon over- 
reached the children of Israel, and the children of Israel 
made a covenant with them, and they made peace with 
them, and the princes of the congregation swore unto 
them, but afterwards the children of Israel knew that they 
were neighbors to them and were dwelling amongst 
them." 

Jasher 88-52: "But the children of Israel slew them 
not; for they had sworn to them by the Lord, and they be- 
came hewers of wood and drawers of water." 

It was a continual saying after 1776 that the institu- 
tion of slavery was an oversight, and something that had 
been overlooked in the struggle for independence, and 
doubtless the slaveholders had been promised <by those 
in authority that slavery would be left as it was before 
1776, who symbolized the princes of the congregation. 
The symbolic proof is very plain, as the Israelites not only 
knew that the Gibeonites were neighbors, but were ac- 
tually dwelling among them at the time of the covenant, 
and they slew them not for they had sworn by the consti- 
tution. 

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Joshua 9-7: "And the men of Israel said unto the 
Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall 
we make a covenant with you? And they said unto Josh- 
ua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, 
Who are ye? and from whence come ye? And they said 
unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come, 
because of the name of the Lord thy God; for we have 
heard the fame of him, and all that h^ did in Egypt, and all 
that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were 
beyond Jordan, to Sihon, King of Heshbon, and to Og, 
King of Bashani, which was at Ashtaroth." 

Joshua 9-1 1 : "And our elders and all the inhabitants 
of our country spake to us, saying, Take provision in 
your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say 
ufito them, We are your servants, and now make ye a 
covenant with us. This our bread we took hot for our pro- 
vision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go 
unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become 
mouldy; and these wine skins, which we filled, were new; 
and, behold, they be rent; and these our garments and our 
shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. 
And the men took of their provision, and asked not coun- 
sel at the mouth of the Lord." 

Both officers and the people directly interested in 
slavery, made provision to meet the opposition sentiment 
to that institution, and like the most of political contro- 
versies, there was a great amount of deception employed 
to accomplish their purpose, or those deceptions would 
not have been 'mentioned in the Scriptures — their mouldy 
bread, old shoes, garments, and their rent wine skins — all 
of which symbolize the slave owners' argument as to the 
long and habitual custom of slavery. 

And the men taking of their provisions without ask- 
ing counsel of the Lord. The words used here signify that 
after the adoption of the constitution the people simpdy 
partook of slavery, but it never became a real issue before 
the people or Congress. 

By not asking counsel at the mouth of the Lord, 
means that the question of slavery was never voted upon, 
either by the people or Congress, in a legal and general 
way, as the Almighty speaks through the press and bal- 



92 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED 

lots of his people, although both press and ballots often 
seem to carry evil on their faces as he says, "1 create light 
and I create darkness; I create good and I create evil; I 
do all these things, saith the Lord of hosts." The evil he 
creates is instrumental in causing his revolutionary re- 
forms, for on account of evil his people declared their in- 
dependence from monarchy. 

Josephus says that our present troubles were caused 
by electing unworthy men to office. Those unworthy 
men will cause the powers of Heaven (United States) to 
be shaken, then will come the political resurrection and 
transfiguration. 

Joshua 9-15: "And Joshua made peace with them, 
and made a covenant with them, to let them live ; and the 
princes of the congregation swore unto them. And it 
came to pass at the end of three days after they had made 
a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their 
neighbors, ana that they dwelt among them. And the 
children of Israel lourneyed, and came unto their cities on 
the third day. New their cities were Gibeon, and Chephi- 
rah, and Kiriachjearim. And the children of Israel smote 
them not, because the princes of the congregation had 
sworn unto them 'by the Lord, the God of Israel. And all 
the congregation murmured against the princes." 

Joshua covenanted with them and allowed them to 
live; meaning that slavery was allowed to be as it was be- 
fore 1776. And Israel journeyed and came to their cities 
on the third day (year) and found that the Gibeonites (sla- 
very) dv/elt among them. The meaning of this is, that it 
was three years, or in the year 1779, before the slavery 
question was seriously thought of by the people of the 
United States. When they found that slavery was quite 
securely incorporated by various means into their Consti- 
tution, all the congregation murmured against the princes. 
Thus it seems that the people of the United States began 
to denounce some of the leaders, or the men in power, for 
the part they had taken in favor of allowing slavery to re- 
main and become a permanent fixture in the new republic. 

Joshua 9-19: "But all the princes said unto all the 
congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord, the 
God of Israel; now, therefore, we may nottouchthem.This 



SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. 93 

we will dc to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon 
us, because of the oath which we sware unto them. And 
the princes said unto them, Let them live, so they become 
hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congre- 
gation; as the princes had spoken unto them." 

The princes said to all the congregation that slavery 
was constitutional, and, therefore, permanent, and could 
not be abolished without committing a great wrong. Thus 
they said, let them live and be your hewers of wood and 
drawers of water. 

Joshua 9-22: "And Joshua called for them, and he 
spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, 
saying, we are very far from you; when ye dwell among 
us? Now, therefore, are ye cursed, and there shall never 
fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and draw- 
ers of water for the house of my God." 

Joshua says to them, because ye beguiled us, saying, 
we are very far from you, when ye dwell among us. This 
signifies that the supporters of slavery had argued that 
slavery was very far from causing the people of the United 
States any trouble. Then Joshua says to them, and there 
shall never fail to be of you, hewers of wood and drawers 
of water. The phrase, "of you," will not allow bondage to 
be applied to all of them who were then in bondage; but 
that a part of them should never fail to be hewers of wood 
and drawers of water in the house of my God (the Israel of 
America). The problem of the emancipated slaves shows 
upon its face, that some of them will always be hewers of 
wood and drawers of water in the United States. 



Riddles. 

Judges, Chap. 16-25: "The PhiHstines took Samson, 
the Judge of Israel, and put his eyes out and made him 
grind in their mill; and when their hearts were merry they 
called for Samson out of the prison house, and he made 
sport before them, and they set him between the pillars 
whereupon their house rested, and there were upon the 
roof about three thousand men and women, and Samson 
took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house 
rested, and he leaned upon them, the one with his right 
hand, and the other with his left. And Samson said, let 
me die with the Philistines, and bowed himself with all his 
might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all 
the people that were therein." 

So the dead which he slew (now mark the expression 
the dead which he slew; the dead symbolizes that which 
belongs to European monarchy, as that is reckoned 
among the dead) at his death were more than they which 
he slew in his life. 

The house was full of men and women and about 
three thousand upon the roof. Now here is a house full 
whose roof can support three thousand persons. What 
an enormous number of persons to be amused with one 
poor old blind prisoner? But the story of Samson is only 
a symbol to symbolize the destruction of the European 
monetary system by the United States, which will begin 
about the time of the end of the international monetary 
congress, of which our President has already appointed 
commissioners. The two pillars that enable Samson to 
destroy the lords of the Philistines symbolize two enact- 
ments by our National Congress, which are identical with 
the two strokes with which Judith severed the head from 
the body of Holofernes, the chief captain of all the hosts 

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of Nebuchadnezzar on the night after the feast of ser- 
vants. 

The dealth of the Philistines is not physical, but 
financial, as the two enactments that will soon be passed 
by our Congress will paralyze the present financial system 
of the civilized globe. 

Let us call to mind that the Almighty said, let us 
(United States) go down and confound their language, as 
the tower of Babel is beginning to assume tremendous 
proportions in the European philistia. 

Samson, having his eyes put out and being com- 
pelled to grind for the Philistines, symbolizes the blind- 
ness of our country at the present time, as many political 
leaders are declaring prosperity right at the door, yet the 
people continue to grind in the mills of the Philistines. 

Judges 17-1 : "And there was a man of the hill coun- 
try (mountains and a hill country always symbolize the 
Israel of America) of Ephraim, whose name was Micah, 
And he said unto his mother, the eleven hundred pieces of 
silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst 
utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, 
the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, blessed 
be my son of the Lord, and he restored the eleven hun- 
dred pieces of silver to his mother." 

Now, reader, go to the old f^mers in Israel, whose 
farms are heavily mortgaged, and to those who have lost 
their farms and homes, and ask them if they have missed 
any silver or if they have heard anything about the eleven 
hundred pieces that were taken. 

Yet it seems that it was as it should be, or the mother 
would not have blessed him that took the silver. 

And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver 
to his mother, and his mother said, I dedicate the silver 
unto the Lord from my hand, for my son to make a 
graven image and a molten image. 

The demonetization of silver by the nations seems to 
be a part of the plan of the Almighty to bring about the 
resurrection and transfiguration of the living (United 
States) and then the resurrection of the dead (nations of 
Europe), those that sleep in the dust of the earth. 

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the earth (Europe) are called the dead, and their resur- 
rection is to come after that of the living. We are called 
the living because of our ancient, Mosaic constitution, and 
compared with other nations our throne is "Fiery Flames, 
and the wheels thereof burning fire." — Daniel 7-9. Hence 
it is said in Judges 16-30: "So the dead which he slew at 
his death were more than they which he slew in his life." 



The Absurdity of the Jews Ever Becoming the Head 
of the Globe. 

The Jews and many theologians have for nearly nine- 
teen hundred years believed that the Jews would be re- 
stored to nationality in Palestine, and would then become 
the head of the whole world, and the great leader in its 
civilization. We cannot agree with them, because it is 
absurd, and does not agree with the prophecies. Politi- 
cally f.peaking, the geographical position of Palesfine is 
not such as to favor its claim to the ultimate capital of the 
world. Palestine is even difficult of access, and has scarce- 
ly one commanding natural feature to recommend it as 
the physical head of the globe. The very nature of the 
case shows that Palestine was selected by God as a type 
of the great antitypicai Israel to co'me, because its sur- 
roundings were such that it never could be anything more. 
It requires every element of power to hold the scepter of 
ti;e world's dominion — vast national resources, vast terri- 
tory, commerce, agriculture, manufactories, and great en- 
terprise, combined with the mightiest intelligence and the 
greatest moral power, to rule the world in its present state 
of advancement, and these in the highest degree. Will the 
great powers, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and 
America yield their scepter to a little patch of hill coun- 
try that has never supplied the world with but little more 
than its Scriptural antiquities? Will they admit their in- 
feriority to a people who can never become their mental 
or political superiors? The very thought is absurd. Some 
will argue that the Jews have 'been providentially pre- 
served as a separate people, and that this argues their final 
restoration to Palestine. We might concur in such an 
opinion, but that alone would disqualify them to become 
the head of the world, both spiritually and politically. Al- 

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though the Christian world can sympathize with the Jews 
in all their wandering captivity, yet it is plain to all that 
they sympathize more with Christian Israel in all its red 
path of martyrdom. 

In Romans, Chap. 11-25, Paul says: "For I would 
not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye 
be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part 
hath befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be 
come in." This is a positive assertion that the great Israel 
will be built up from the Gentiles, and so shall all be saved, 
as it is written: "There shall come out of Zion the deliv- 
erer; H'C shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. And 
this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away 
their sins." Here the conversion of the Gentiles would be 
plainly seen to transpire before that of the Jews, and also 
that the Christians from among the Gentiles are to con- 
vert the Jews, and the Jews are to be the last people con- 
verted to the gospel of Christ. (The democracy of Christ.) 
How absurd, then, to think that the Jews, restored to Pal- 
estine, are to become the head of the world and are to con- 
vert all the world, to what, Judaism? Will the Jews teach 
Christianity? Both propositions are absurd and full of 
fanaticism. The restoration of the Israel of God is as dif- 
ferent a thing from the restoration to Palestine, as Pales- 
tine differs from heaven. The Scriptures agree that Chris- 
tians, Jews and Gentiles alike, have equal rights, but Israel 
alone is predicted to emigrate to that land of broad rivers 
and large pastures in such vast numbers that they can 
break the nations in pieces and rule them with a rod of 
iron. But such an emigration to the little Palestine is 
manifestly impossible. If the Jews have been providen- 
tially preserved, so have the Christians. The Jews are a 
nation, or people, without a dominion, and entirely void 
of any constitutional power in any part of the globe. 
They have been thus deprived of power for their iniquities, 
but Christian Israel has been a martyr for its innocence — 
the former for its vice, the latter for its virtue — the one 
murdered the prince of life, the other worshipped him. 

Now would God place the carnal Israel of the Jews 
above the Christian or spiritual Israel? — ifor all are Israel 
that prevail with God. He has said so and his word will 



ABSURDITY OF THE JEWS. 99 

be found sure and certain. Should he givelthe Jews superior 
power and wider dominion and greater glory, then would 
God seem to reward treason and discourage fidelity. God 
can restore the Jews to Palestine and make them the head 
and governors of the world by a miraculous power, but 
there is no promise of the exertion of any such power in 
their behalf. It would be contrary to all the teachings of 
Christ, and such a theory would be false, fanatical and 
full of evil. If the restoration of the Jews, or Israel, or 
any other body of people in the magnitude of a world-gov- 
erning nationality was to be brought about by a miracu- 
lous power it would have been mentioned by the prophets, 
and also in the books of the New Testament, for they are 
the expositors O'f the Old. Nowhere do we find a prophecy 
that carnal Israel \Yill be restored to Palestine, and if it 
should be, the teachings and preachings of Christ would 
be void of meaning, and Christianity would dwindle and 
soon disappear from the globe. The New Testament 
speaks of a temple, a tabernacle and a new Jerusalem. 
A new Jerusalem is not an old one. 

Revelation, Chap. 3, 7-9-10: "And to the angel of the 
chtu-ch in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that 
is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he 
that openeth, and none shall shut, and that shutteth, and 
none openeth: I know thy works (behold, I have set be- 
fore thee a door opened, which none can shut), that thou 
hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not 
deny my name." 

9. "Behold, I give of the synagogue of satan, of 
them which say they are Jews, and they are not, but do 
lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before 
thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." 

10. "Because thou didst keep the word of my pa- 
tience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that 
hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them 
that dwell upon the earth (Europe)." 

The angel here is speaking directly to the United 
States, and is not individual, but national in its broadest 
sense. The earth in prophecy always signifies the old 
Roman world or the Roman earth, as it was anciently 
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loo ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

in that time of war and trouble that is soon to come over 
the world, meaning that territory that was occupied by 
the old Roman empire. 

Revelation, Chap. 3, 11-12: "I come quickly; hold 
fast that which thou hast that no one take thy crown." 

12. "He that overcometh I will make him a pillar 
in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no 
more ; and I will write upon him the name of my God and 
the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which 
Cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own 
new name." This prophecy signifies the new Jerusalem 
of the United States, and the new name will conform to 
nothing else but the "ancient of days," in its new order 
and its new territory. The theory of the carnal restora- 
tion of the Jews requires that the ten lost tribes, as well as 
Judah and Benjamin, shall be united in Palestine at the 
restoration. This is impossible without a resurrection of 
the dead, for the existence of the ten tribes to-day cannot 
by any means be proven. It is said that traces of them 
exist in Asia, but traces are not tribes. The Jews in Asia 
are as likely to be the dispersed of the two tribes as the 
descendents of the ten. The ten tribes were prone to 
amalgamation with adjacent nations, and for this they 
were ejected from 'Ganaan and lost their identity as ten 
tribes long ago, by mingled blood. 

The observance of many ceremonies and customs 
have kept the Jews a separate people all through the ages. 
Were the Jews to be Christianized then the Hebrew cere- 
monial law would cease to be a wall of separation between 
them and the Gentile Christians. Circumcision and other 
rites, and especially the law, or custom, forbidding mar- 
riage with Gentiles, would cease, and all essential differ- 
ences between them and Gentile converts would be at an 
end. Amalgamation would follow and the distinguishing 
ethnological character of Hebrews would cease. To this 
it is replied that the word of God declares the restoration 
of Israel, meaning the Hebrews, and every word of God 
will be fulfilled. We most cordially admit the proposi- 
tion, but deny that the prophecy ever proclaimed the oc- 
currence of events that are repugnan't to common sense. 
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ABSURDITY OF THE JEWS. loi 

it a theory really at variance with the laws of nature and 
good sense is, to say the least, a false interpretation. We 
will quote for the present a few authoritative and decisive 
prophecies predicting the Israel of the United States. 

Isaiah, Chap, ii, 11-12-14: '"And it shall come to pass 
in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the sec- 
ond time to recover the remnant of his people." 

12. "And shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and 
gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of 
the earth." 

14. "And they shairfliy down upon the shoulder of 
the Philistines on the west." The United States flew 
down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west 
when it gained its vast territory from France, Spain and 
Mexico, a* territory equal to the half of Europe. Surely 
the Almighty, in using this language, does not refer to 
that little clan anciently known as Philistines, who occu- 
pied a strip of land along the shore of the Mediterranean 
Sea scarcely more than twenty-five miles in width. 

The name of these people must be used figuratively, 
and means that great empire that the United States of 
Israel acquired on the west. It is too insignificant for a 
moment's consideration to think that the Almighty would 
mention in his Scriptures that little patch of country on 
the west of the children of ancient Israel, which has only 
been conspicuous for its changes of nationality while our 
acquisitions have never changed, and there are many 
promises in prophecy that they never will. 

Isaiah, Chap. 60: "Surely the isles shall wait for me, 
and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from 
far." It is impossible to spiritualize these passages, conse- 
quently they predict the latter day restoration of Israel — 
the national restoration of the seed of Abraham. The 
terms west, and ships of Tarshish, utterly refuse to be ac- 
commodated to a mere figurative or a spiritual meaning, 
for the ships of Spain (Tarshish) certainly brought the 
first people to America, also they discovered it and the 
ships of Tarshish refuse 'to conform in any respect with 
Palestine, either ancient or modern. 

Romans, Chap. 2, 28-29: "For he is not a Jew, which 
is one outwardly; neither is that circumcisioin which is out- 



102 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ward in the flesh; but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; 
and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in 
the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God." 

Romans, Chap. 9-6: "For they are not all Israel 
which are of Israel." 

II. Galatians, Chap. 3, 7-9: "Know, therefore, that 
they which be of faith, the same are sons of Abraham." 

3-9. "So then they which be of faith are blessed 
with the faithful Abraham." "That upon the Gentiles 
might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus." 

Galatians, Chap. 3, 28-29: "There can be neither Jew 
nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can 
be no male and female for ye all are one man in Christ 
Jesus." 

29. "And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's 
seed, heirs according to promise." In these passages the 
Jew who is to be inheritor of the promise is plainly to be 
one who is an heir by faith in Jesus, and that only. The 
inhabitants of the United States being a late and an ex- 
traordinary people, we inquire: May it not be the verita- 
ble nationality of the prophets? If it is an Israel at all; if 
it coincides with all the great characteristics predicted of 
a Christian nation, the doubt must end and our country 
rise to an importance and sublimity absolutely over- 
whelming. The name Israel literally signifies a prince 
with God, or wrestling or prevailing with God. It was 
a personal appellative with Jacob and, by metonymy, of 
his descendants. 'When used in the Old Testament, it re- 
fers either to the Hebrew nation or to the ten tribes. In 
the New Testament it is applied to Christianity, as, for 
example, the Israel of God. The United States from these 
several considerations may, therefore, with strict proprie- 
ty, be called an Israel. All the great features predicted oi 
Israel restored are possessed by the United States. 

Hosea, Chap. 12-10: "I have also spoken unto the 
prophets, and I have multiplied visions and by the min- 
istry of the prophets have I used similitudes." By far the 
greater portion of the prophecies is intentionally obscure. 
The obscurity proceeds from the ambiguity of the terms 
used, or from the symbols and ancient names used to rep- 
resent modern countries, cities, rivers, territories, etc., as 



ABSURDITY OF THE JEWS. I03 

the great sea symbolically means the politics of nations. 
River stands for a nation in motion, or a body of people 
in motion, as a tide of emigration, etc. 

Isaiah, Chap. 60-9: "Surely the isles shall wait for me, 
and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from 
far." The term isles was applied anciently to Europe and 
all countries west of Asia Minor. Those vast countries 
supposed to exist in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar are also 
termed Isles by Plato and many others. The waiting of 
the isles refers to their delay in receivingthe civilizing emi- 
grants or that the occupation of them would be late, or 
the last of its kind. "The ships of Tarshish." Tarshish 
was the most ancient name of Spain (not Tarsus of Cilicia). 
Tarshish; the word pointedly specifies the first people 
who would approach the waiting isles. As prophecy notes 
only the greatest events of time the term, first, must apply 
to some very stupendous and famous circumstance. Amer- 
ica answers to the term Isles, and the ships of Tarshish 
first to bring thy sons, to the discovery of America by the 
ships of Spain opening the way to the emigration of God's 
people to form a nation in the Isles. 

Ezekiel, Chap. 38-8: "In the latter years thou shalt 
come into the land that is brought back from the sword, 
tBat is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains 
of Israel, which have been a continual waste." Which 
have been a continual waste, would not apply to Palestine, 
as that country has been wonderfully prolific of the human 
family and many things pertaining to them. Mountains 
symbolize strong civil governments, and America answers 
to the country described as being a continual waste, as it 
was without a civilization. 

All of the Americans were not Christians at the form- 
ing of the Constitution, and so were not all the Hebrews, 
yet all the unbelieving Hebrews enjoyed the same political 
privileges as did the faithful, and so it was with the Ameri- 
cans. About 144,000 professed Christians were in Ameri- 
ca at the time of the revolution, yet the prevalence of 
Christian principles was universal, and the political princi- 
ples aroused by the churches were adopted by all classes. 
Church and State were disunited by the Hebrew Consti- 
tution and placed in the relation of associates. The church 



104 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

was disbarred as a church from exercising direct control 
in civil affairs. And so it was in the American Constitu- 
tion, the civil arm has with us no right to compel its ob- 
servance as a spiritual institution, and should have none — 
so was the Hebrew law. The United States Constitution 
puts religion in just the same relation to the civil authority 
that God ordered it in the days of Moses. The two sep- 
arate departments of religion and politics in the Hebrew 
confederacy exactly agree with those departments in the 
United States. The political officers of the Hebrews were 
elected, and so in the United States. The Hebrew Con- 
stitution forbade foreigners ever becoming supreme mag- 
istrates, and so does the United States. The Hebrew Con- 
stitution provided for the naturalization of foreigners, and 
so does the United States, though not so strictly. The 
coincidences of the exo'dus of Israel with the Christians of 
America is almost miraculous. Freedom is but a common 
body as truly as true religion; if you strike one member 
all sympathize with it. Let the cry of the oppressed in any 
part of the world reach America and every one of its mill- 
ions will be agitated and all their pulses will beat with ex- 
citement and indignation. As at the climax of their suf- 
ferings, the Hebrews rallied round their leader for deliv- 
erance, so the climax of oppression on the American colo- 
nies united them by elective and electric affinity. 

Ii was then that separate and independent provinces 
were melted like ingots of gold into a state of common 
lusion, or welded like bars of steel by the fire and hammer 
of despotism. And as the pride of Pharoah wrought un- 
wittingly the release of Israel, so the pride and avarice of 
monarchy brought out the stars of the great western con- 
stellation into the heavens of liberty. 

As Israel entered a wilderness to stand its probation 
under a new constitution, so the advocates of civil and 
religious freedom entered the American wilderness to try 
tl;e lortunes of a great republic. As Israel elected God 
for its King, so did America. As Israel was prepared to 
conquer Canaan by its discipline and maintain a republic, 
so the United States, in the wilderness of Amierica, is pre- 
paring to dash the image of autocracy to atoms and to es- 
tablish Christ's Kingdom. As Israel had its judges or 



ABSURDITY OF THE JEWS. io$ 

chief magistrates nominated by God and ratified by the 
people, so the people of the United States chose their own 
executives. The civil power was not the head of the He- 
brew church, as the monarchs of Russia, England and 
Turkey have been of the Greek, English and Mohamme- 
dan ciuirches. Neither the Sanhedrim nor the King of 
Israel could appoint a high priest of the church, nor could 
the high priest compel the payment of tithes or the ofifer- 
ing of sacrifices, nor compel the secular arm to do it. In 
spiritual matters the Hebrew was responsible only to God 
and to the ecclesiastical law and was in no way responsible 
to civil authority for his spiritual conduct. The disunion 
of church and State is the great prophetic epoch of lib- 
erty and progress according to both Daniel and Revela- 
tion. It is the beginning of the end of despotism, and 
when it fully prevails the time of the end will close and 
despotism will forever cease on the globe. The two sep- 
arate departments of religion and politics in the Hebrew 
confederacy exactly coincide with those departments in 
our country. The political offices of the Hebrews were 
elective and not hereditary, and so it is in our government. 
The Israelites decided in general assembly all ques- 
tions of war and treaties of peace, and Moses always ap- 
pealed to the whole people and not to the few to accept or 
reject his propositions. The sixth period of Hebrew his- 
tory, which includes the conquest of Canaan and the es- 
tablishment of the republic, coincides with the sixth period 
of the world and with the sixth period of Christianity. The 
grea: Doints in this period are these: First, the conquest of 
Canaan was completed by two great battles. Second, the 
conquest of Canaan under Joshua and the judges did not 
embrace all of the promised land. The promised land ex- 
tended from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates and was 
not realized until after Joshua. Neither did the United 
States obtain the great part of their territory until after 
1801, which is the date of the antitypical death of Joshua. 
These two great battles are pointed out by John in the 
14th chapter of Revelation and in other places. The first 
is indicated by one "like the son of man on a white cloud 
who thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was 
reaped;" and the second by the "reaping of the vine of the 



io6 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

earth and its 'being cast into the wine press without the 
city and blood coming out of it even unto the horse-bridles 
by the space of sixteen hundred furlongs." He then, after 
a short episode, describes the United States and the attack 
of the Confederate Kings upon it, and later that the beast, 
which is the confederated Kings of Europe, was taken 
with the false prophets, which is the Mohammedan em- 
pire, and they were both cast alive into the lake of fire (the 
great war) at the same time. The reaping of the earth sig- 
nifies the destruction of European monarchies, and the 
reaping of the vine indicates the dreadful flow of blood at 
their fall. As all the thrones of Canaan fell before carnal 
Israel to make room for the republic, so all thrones must 
fall before Christian Israel to make room for the great 
millennial republic. 

The world was promised to Abraham as truly as was 
Canaan, and Canaan was but typical of the world and the 
Israel of Moses was to typify its subjugation by the subju- 
gation of canaan under Joshua by Israel. The millennium 
is clearly a state of the world under the realizing blessings 
of civil and religious republicanism, as we shall hereafter 
try to show. The land of Canaan was a land of promise, 
therefore, only as a type of the world, and as it was prom- 
ised to Abraham, so was the world promised to Christ. 
That Abraham understood the promise of Palestine as a 
typical one, is evident from the nature of the case and 
from the express declarations of Scripture. 

Hebrews, Chap, ii, 12-13-14: ''Wherefore, also, there 
sprang of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the 
stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by 
tlie seashore innumerable." 

13. "These all died in faith, not having received the 
promises, but having seen them and greeted them from 
afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and 
pilgrims on the earth." 

14. "For they that say such 'things make it mani- 
fest that they are seeking after a country of their own." 

Hebrews, Chap. 8, 5-6-7-8-9-13: "Who serve that 
which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even 
as Moses is warned of God when he is about to make the 
tabernacle, for, see, saith he, that thou make all things 



ABSURDITY OF THE JEWS. 107 

according to the pattern that I showed thee in the mount." 

6. "But now hath he obtained a ministry the more 
excellent, by how much also he is the piediator of a better 
covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises." 

7. "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then 
would no place have been sought for a second." 

8. "For finding fault with them he saith, behold, 
the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new 
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of 
Judah." 

9. "Not according to the covenant that I made with 
their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to 
lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; for they con- 
tinued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith 
the Lord." 

13. "In that he saith a new covenant, he hath made the 
first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth 
aged is nigh unto vanishing away." As the common- 
wealth of Israel was composed of two departments, viz: 
the church and state, and as like typifies its like, the church 
of Israel typifies the Christian church and the Hebrew 
state the Christian state, and both together typify the 
Christian com'monwealth, that was to rise in the year 1776. 

If we trace the rise of Christianity into a great free 
government in America, we shall find the philosophy of its 
history in a fac-simile of the rise of the Hebrew confed- 
eracy in its elements. As many people in the American 
colonies were not pious and yet approved of the liberty 
taught by 'Christianity, so many of the Hebrews were un- 
believers in the religion of Moses, and yet approved of 
and contended for the justness of constitutional liberty. 
Those who imagine that anti-typical Israel was to be com- 
posed of pure and holy men altogether are greatly mis- 
taken. On this principle the Heibrew church, as a type, 
would have required that every member of the anti-typical 
American Israel should have been holy. As the church 
of typical Israel possessed the true doctrine, though many 
w'ho belonged to it were impure, so the commonwealth 
of anti-itypical Israel possesses the true doctrine of human 
government, though many w'ho enjoy its benefits are not 
Christians. This is according to the sense of the present 



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theology, but a person can in no way be a Christian with- 
out being loyal to the United States. His Christianity 
can only be rated according to his loyalty to the place that 
Christ said he would go to prepare for his people. The 
United States is the only salvation, the only savior, and 
the only redeemer .that has ever been presented to the 
human family. The United States is the only object that 
Christ came into the world for. H'e that does not believe 
in a government by the people and for the people does not 
possess one spark of Christianity. All there is of Christ, 
on this planet, is in the form of the republics, chief of which 
is the United States. 

Isaiah, Chap. 33, 20-21: "Thine eyes shall see Jeru- 
salem, a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, 
the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall 
any of the cords thereof be broken." 

21. "But 'there the Lord will be with us in majesty, 
a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no 
galley with oars, neither shall gallant ships pass thereby." 

The peace and permanency of Israel are elsewhere 
spoken of 'by the prophets, who affirm that once restored 
it shall never fall. Again, the Lord being a place of broad 
rivers and stream's, signifies that prosperity and peace in 
the land of Israel will spring from the gift of a place of 
broad rivers and streams, where the tabernacle of Israel's 
nationality will be erected. It is common in scripture to 
embody a promise or threat in terms figurative, which, 
when taken literally, designate the very agency by which 
the threat or promise is reahzed. Sword and fire may 
symbolize war, or rain may represent plenty, yet each is 
an essential agent in the realization. So 'broad rivers and 
streams may sym'boHze vast inland' prosperity, and yet are 
essential means in efifecting it and may be taken in a 
literal as well as a figurative sense. No galleys, with oars, 
indicates the independence of all the people, as no galley 
slaves. No gallant ships pass thereby, indicates that the 
new Jerusalem of the United States will never be vassal of 
any foreign power. 

Isaiah, Chap. 49-23: "And Kings shall be thy nurs- 
ing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers." 



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Nursing applies to our colonial infancy, that yet have the 
names of their nursing kings and queens, and the 
memorial of them will remain on our rivers and waters, 
our cities and towns, our counties and States, while time 
shall last. Louisiana, Georgia, ■Carolina^ Virginia, Mary- 
land, New York, Jameston and 'Charleston suggest the 
early interest of royalty in our colonial history. 

Isaiah, Chap. 1-26: "I will restore thy judges as at 
the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning." Judges 
and counselors were an essential part of the Hebrew de- 
mocracy, or of the first government, and their restoration 
applies to our form of government. 

Jeremiah, Chap. 30-21 : "And their prince shall be of 
themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst 
of them." The selection of rulers from the masses is in- 
cidental to democracy only. 

Isaiah, Chap. 33-20: "Look upon Zion the city of 
our solemnities; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem, a quiet 
habitation, a -tent that shall not be removed, the stakes 
whereof shall not be plucked up; neither shall any of the 
cords thereof be broken." Now this utterly refuses to 
conform in any way to little Palestine, as its stakes and 
cords have been taken up and broken many times, and 
the indications are at the present time that no part of 
the ancient Palestine will ever be governed by the Jews. 
(And it is uncertain whether or not they would be found 
capable of self-government if they should take advantage 
of an opportunity presented to them.) Our stakes and 
cords have never 'been taken away or broken by any 
nation other than ourselves. Our late civil war was en- 
tirely internal and was solely for the purpose of purifying 
the nation. "A tent that shall not be removed." This will 
not apply to Palestine, nor the Jerusalem there, as that has 
fallen many times. A place of broad rivers and streams 
will app^ly to the United States exactly, but will not to the 
Jerusalem nor Palestine of old. The new Jerusalem and 
a new name signify the prior existence of an old one that 
was succeeded 'by the new. 

Isaiah, Chap. 60-11: "Thy gates also shall be open 
continually; thy shall not be shut day nor night; that men 



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may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, and their 
kings led with ithem." W'hat is meant by this is not ser- 
vility or tribute in any way, but that other nations must 
acknowledge and adopt our free and righteous institu- 
tions, and that our gates or ports will be open continually 
to emigration from all parts of the globe, and shall not be 
shut day nor night; that is, through prosperity or ad- 
versity. And after this evil time, which will last about 
seven years, from the year 1893 to the year 1900, which is 
the climax of the ages, the end of the 6,000 symbolic 
years, then there will 'be no more night (adversity). 

Revelation, Chap. 22-5 : "And there shall be night no 
more; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of the 
sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall 
reign forever and ever." There will be no night there 
after this last evil time. They need no light of the sun. 
Our President is our chief luminary, yet he will be d.s- 
pensed with. 

Isaiah, Chap. 33-19: "Thou shalt not see the fierce 
people, a peop^le of a deep speech that thou canst not per- 
ceive; of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand." 
The universality of our language is legitimately inferred 
from this passage and the unity of the language of the 
American people is one of the most extraordinary occur- 
rences in the history of great empires, 

Isaiah, Chap. 54-13: "And all thy c'hildren shall be 
taught of the Lord." Our educational system is unpar- 
alleled in the history of the world. The abundance of the 
sea snail be converted unto t'hee — that is, the commerce 
of the world. The forces O'f the Gentiles shall come unto 
thee — that is, vast multitudes of emigrants will pour into 
this country. 

Isaiah, Chap. 58-12: "And t'hey that shall be of thee 
shall build the old waste places; and thou shalt raise up 
the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be 
called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the paths 
to dwell in." This points directly to the United States 
without any interpretation. 

Isaiah, Chap. 62-8: "The Lord has sworn by his 



ABSURDITY OF THE JEWS. ill 

right hand, and iby the arm of his strength ; surely I will 
no more give thy corn to he meat for thine enemies; and 
strangers shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou 
hast labored ; 'but 'they ithat have garnered it shall eat it, 
and praise the Lord; and they 'that have gathered it shall 
drink it in the courts of my sanctuary." This signifies 
our independence of other nations. Eating and drinking 
in the courts of his sanctuary signifies that he considers 
his whole people, and his entire country, bis sanctuary. 

Isaiah, Chap. 60-8: "Who are these that fly as a 
cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" To fly as 
clouds indicate multitudes, and doves returning show 
that wanderers are flying hither for rest from the flood of 
sorrow upon the earth. 

Isaiah, Chap. 60-10: "And strangers shall build up 
thy walls." Our great systems of internal improvements 
are our walls of strength, and all our drudgery is per- 
formed by strangers to our deuKOcratic liberty. 

Zzekiel, iChap. 47-13: "This shall be the borders,' 
whereby ye shall divide the land for inheritance according 
to the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have portions." 
In the foregoing it is plainly stated that it shall be inherited 
according to the twelve tribes. Joseph shall have por- 
tions, not portions of tribes, but portions of territory; and 
there were just thirteen portions of territory, or thirteen 
States of ancient Israel, thus making it a perfect type of 
the thirteen Colonial Territories, or States, that the 
"ancient of days" organized in the year 1776. The revolu- 
tionary war was the anti-typical Jordan that Moses was 
not allowed to cross over, in the year 1776. And Joshua 
ruled the people for twenty-five years, or until the year 
1801, when the judiciary of the United States was reor- 
ganized and the Supreme Court was made to consist of 
five judges. In that year Joshua died, being 1 10 years old, 
as he was born in the year 1691 A. D. 

Jeremiah, Chap. 7-12: "But go ye now unto my 
place, wdiich was in Sbiloh, where I caused my name to 
dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wicked- 
ness of my people in Israel." 

Zephaniah, Chap. 2-5: "O Canaan, the land of the 



112 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Philistines, I will destroy thee that there shall be no- in- 
habitant." Now here are two emphatic declarations that 
Canaan, the land of the Philistines, where Shiloh was at 
first, and where Jerusalem was at the first, and where he 
set his name at the first, will be destroyed, that it will not 
even be inhabited. By this is meant, not a total destruc- 
tion, but that it is not governed 'by the democratic consti- 
tution that Israel had of old, and the latter Israel (the 
United States) has now. Now when were Philistia, 
Canaan, Palestine, land of Israel, land of Judah — for they 
are ah the same place — destroyed that it is not inhabited? 
Then where will be his people, the children of Israel, that 
he has said will remain in their own place forever, and on 
account of their multitude will dwell in unwalled cities and 
villages? 

Apocrypha, book II., Esdras, Chap. 10-54: "For in 
the place wherein the highest beginneth to show his city, 
there can no man's building be able to stand." This shows 
"the protection and security given by the Almighty to the 
United States. 



Last Record of the Jews. 

The last record of the Jews while there yet remained 
a vestige of their nationality was made by the sacred his- 
torian, Flavius Josephus. Sometime in the seventies A. 
D., when the fanatical factions of the Jews were murder- 
ing, plundering and even snatching food from the mouths 
of their own women and children, they had no regard for 
the infirm; neither the aged was exempt from the robbery 
of their own countryman. They plundered their own 
fathers and the fathers robbed their own children. All 
these things, and many more, much more selfish and 
brutal, at a time when their powerful enemy, the Romans, 
were surrounding the city of Jerusalem. It was a time 
when their charity, self-sacrifice, patriotism, and bravery 
ought to have shown forth with all the hejoic splendor 
that any nation or people upon the globe ever was called 
upon to display; but instead of being brave and heroic, 
when the awful famine set in the Jews began to murder 
and steal from all of their own people, whom they could 
overcome. As soon as one would become weak from the 
want of food they would murder him and take the little 
food he might have left. The young and the old were not 
respected, but were all murdered and robbed when found 
with food or valuaibles in their possession. Many more 
of the Jews were slain by their own countrymen than were 
slain by the Romans. Instead of heroism they displayed 
a selfishness more brutal than caged swine. Horrid 
stench filled their houses where the murdered lay in heaps, 
and amidst those awful scenes of plunder, famine and 
murder fell the literal temple and nation of the Jews, never 
to rise again. Of the great stones of which their temple 
was built there were not one left remaining upon another. 

We would 'be loath to mention the horrors of the 

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114 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

siege of Jerusalem, if they were not written on the 
sacred pages of the histories of Josephus, who uses the 
siege and destruction of Jerusalem, and the temple, to 
symbolize the siege and destruction of our present mon- 
etary system and also that of the earth (Europe). Our 
monetary system will be destroyed at the end of the exact 
number of years after A. D. 1826 that the ancient Jewish 
temple was destroyed after the birth of Jesus Christ. 

Josephus was an American historian, and in that part 
of his sacred works, where he gives the history of his own 
family and the actions of his own life, he proves himself 
to be a symbol of our United States Treasury Depart- 
ment. From 1840 A. D. to 1899 A. D., as his antitypical 
birth was in the year 1840 A. D., which was the indepen- 
dent treasury bill passed by Congress at that time, and the 
actions oif his own life coincides with the phases of our 
Treasury Department from 1840 until the year 1899 A. D. 
He that hath understanding can find these things in the 
life of Josephus. From the year 1896 to the year 1900, 
while the United States is being resurrected and hastening 
to be transfigured, there will be a time of about seven days 
when the powers that be in the United States will be silent 
or become confused, which was symbolized by the one- 
half hour silence in heaven. It is that time when the 
powers of heaven will be shaken, and immediately after 
that time the earth (Europe) will politically reel to and 
fro like a drunkard, and then the political combination of 
monarchy in Europe will be removed like a cottage and 
will be no more. 

It is possible that the savage brutality practiced by 
the Jews upon each other in the siege of Jerusalem was not 
literal, but only put upon the prophetic pages of Josephus 
as a prototype to symibolize the literal destruction of their 
antitype, the monetary syste^m of civilization, that of 
heaven and earth (United States ana Europe). The great 
numbers that perished in the siege typified the same num- 
ber that will financially perish during the years from 1895 
to 1900 A. D., which, according to Josephus, is about 
1,500,000. As miracles were put on the pages of prophecy 
as hieroglyphs to interpret literal events in the future, 
so it is possible that the story of the Jewish brutality was 



LAST RECORD OF THE JEWS. 115 

to symbolize the literal brutality of our present monetary 
system, and that of Europe, both of which is soon to pass 
away. 

The European monarchy will disappear amidst the 
greatest of political and financial upheavals that the earth 
(Europe) has ever known. (See Revelation 16-18 — "And 
there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there 
were men upon, the earth.") This means the greatest that 
has been since there were nations in Europe as men in 
prophecy always symbolize nations or societies. 



The Creation ]\Icntio7ied in the I^irst of Genesis Was 
Not a Literal Creation^ as It Has Universally Been 
Preached and Taught by All Theology^ but It Was 
Only a Sytnbolic Creation, and the Six Days, Six 
Ages, and Six Thousand Tears JMentioned in the 
Scriptures Are Symbolic, and Symbolize Periods oj 
Time in the Literal Creation Which Began at the 
Birth of Jesus Christ. 

In the beginning God created heaven and earth. This 
creation was a symbolized constitution to govern them for 
six thousand years, as that creation has been a constitu- 
tion governing the world for 6,000 years. The term, 
world here means the old Roman world (not the globe), 
and is the same mentioned in Luke, Chap. 2-1, as follow^: 
"Now it came to pass in those days there went out a de- 
cree "from 'Caesar Augustus that all the world should be 
enrolled." Xow Caesar Augustus never had the power to 
tax the people in all parts of the globe, but only in the 
Roman world; and it is in this sense that the word is used 
all through the scriptures. The term earth, or world, does 
not mean the globe, as is generally supposed, but only 
the old Roman earth, or world; as all these things created 
in the beginning are used by the prophets as symbols to 
interpret that constitution, which did not create a globe 
any more than our constitution created North America, 
or the territory 'that it was to govern. Both are in process 
of creation now, and will be until the end of the 6,000 
years (that symibolize our era). 

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Ii6 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day 
from the night; and let them 'be for signs and for seasons 
and for days and years." The Bible has been the center 
of the constitutional government of the world, or earth. 
That constitution has increased in power and influence 
more and more from its creation, and ill to the end of 
the 6,000 years, and then it will be changed by a revolu- 
tionary resurrection, when all the nations will be divorced 
from the church. For Christ said that in that world there 
would neither be marrying nor giving in marriage; and 
futher, that they will be modeled after the ancient Mosaic 
democracy, like the United States. They have been sub- 
ject to amendments and revolutions, and at the end of the 
6,000 symbolic years they will be amended by a revolu- 
tionary resurrection. Our resurrection will be rapid, as 
the ancient of days was symbolizea by a throne of fiery 
flame, with wheels of burning fire, which are symbols of 
rapidity. There is a veil over that creation, and there is a 
veil over the numerals of that creation, which we believe 
will be removed 'between the years 1897 and 1901. If we 
add the ages of 'the seven antediluvian patriachs we have 
within 121 of 6,000; and in the beginning of this 121 years 
God took Enoch, which sym'bolizes the beginning of the 
United States. The ages of the seven antediluvian patri- 
archs are periods of time symbolizing periods of time since 
Christ, the second Adam. As all things mentioned by the 
prophets, beginning with Genesis, the creation of all 
things, even the first man, Adam, were only symbols to 
symbolize the second man, which was Christ, and the 
real creation. In proof that the creation and the ages of 
the patriarchs were on'ly symbols and not literal, Josephus 
says concerning them in Book i, Chap. 3-4: "But let no 
one inquire into the deaths o'f these men; for they extended 
their lives all along, together with their children and 
grandchildren; but let him have regard to their births 
only." The dates of their births make the sum of 1,056, 
while their whole lives make the sum of 5,897. 

Noah was 'born in the 1,056th year of our era, as the 
flood happened in the 6ooth year of iNoah's life. Add the 
600 to 1,056, and we have the year 1656, which is the year 
of the antitypical flood, and the year 5879, which is the 



A CREATION OF SYMBOLS. n; 

sum of the com'bined ages of the seven antediluvian patri- 
archs, up to ithe time the Lord took Enoch in his 365th 
year; which taking typified the birth o'f the United States 
in the year of the world, or creation, 5879; the astronom- 
ical year corresponding to the year of the Christian era — 
1776. 

Adam lived 930 years 

Seth hved 912 years 

Enos lived 905 years 

Cainan lived 910 years 

Mahalaleel lived 895 years 

Jared lived 962 years 

Enoch lived 365 years 

Total 5,879 

Age of man 120 

The six ages 5.999 

Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took 
him. 

The earth is Europe, and heaven is the United States, 
which is called the man, or man-child, by the prophets, as 
man was made on the sixth day of the creation, after God 
had created the. earth and the beasts and all the hving 
creatures. Genesis, Chap. 1-14: * * * "And let them 
be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years." 

The number of years from the creation of the world 
(Europe) to the seventh generation after Seth, is 1,056, 
when the people showed 'by their actions a greater degree 
of wickedness, and relied on their own strength. 

Adam lived 130 years and begat Seth. 

Seth lived 105 years and begat Enos. 

Enos lived 90 years and begat Cainan. 

Cainan lived 70 years and 'begat I lahalaleel. 

Mahalaleel lived .... 65 years and begat Jared. 

Jared lived 162 years and begat Enoch. 

Enoch lived 65 years and begat Methuselah. 

Methuselah lived .... 187 years and begat Lamech. 
Lamech lived 182 years and begat Noah. 

1,056 



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Josephus, Book L, Chap. 3-4: * * * "But let 
him have regard to their births only." Here is proof that 
the seven antediluvian patriarchs were symbolic, and were 
to symbolize periods of time after the creation of the 
second Adam, which was Christ, sometimes called by 
some of the prophets the creation of God. The combined 
ages of these seven patriarchs at the time each of them 
begat his first born amounted to 1,056, the year of the 
birth of the antitypical Noah of the Christian era; and 
Noah was 600 years old at the time of the antitypical 
flood. Add the 600 to 1,056, and we have 1,656, the time 
when the antitypical flood of the Christian era began on 
the earth (Europe). 

Genesis, Chap, i, 24-25-26: ''And God said let the 
earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, and 
creeping thing and beast of the earth after its kind; and 
it was so." AH of that vast creation, beast, man, woman, 
all are symbols, as the human family had existed long be- 
fore that, but God kept the symbolized creation hidden for 
a long time. 

25. "And God made the beast of the earth after its 
kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that 
creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and God saw that 
it was good." After his kind, means after the kind of the 
earth (Europe). 

26. "And Go'd said let us make man in our own 
image, after our likeness ; and let them have dominion over 
the fis'h of the sea, and the fowl of the air, and over the 
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping 
thing that creepeth upon the earth." This shows that 
man was made after the earth, the beast and all created 
things. Man was created from the dust of the earth. That 
means something that will rise from the dust of the earth 
(Europe). 

Genesis, Chap. 6, 2-4-3: "And sons of God saw the 
daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took them 
wives of all that they chose." Man symbolizes a nation 
and woman a church, and this symbolizes the marriage of 
the nations with the churches. 

4. "The Nephilim were in the earth in those days." 
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A CREATION OF SYMBOLS. 119 

Men of renown; after the marriage of the nations to the 
churches they became mighty men of old. Nations of re- 
nown, as England, Russia, France and the Mohammedan 
empire, became mighty and renowned. 

3. "And the Lord said. My spirit shall not strive with 
man forever, for that he also is flesh; yet shall his days be 
a hundred and twenty years." 

The age of man to 'be 120 years means the age of a 
nation, and consequently it must be inferred here as mean- 
ing the United States, as that republic will be 120 years 
of age at the beginning of the resurrection or transfigura- 
tion in 1896. And it is the first nation after the death of 
antitypical Moses in 1776, as J'osephus says that man 
would attain to the age of the num'ber of years that Moses 
happened to live, which was 120; and the United States is 
the first man (nation) after M'oses. Now the antitypical 
Moses was born in 1656 (the Cromwellian Parliaments). 
H'e was 80 years of age at the time of the exodus in 1736; 
after which date he wandered in the American wilderness 
for forty years, when he came to the antitypical Jordan in 
1776, which he was not allowed to cross, when he died; his 
death symbolizing the death of the colonial government. 
Then the colonial government (Moses) was succeeded by 
that of Joshua's, that marched around the walls of Jericho 
seven days (years) before the walls fell, symbolizing the 
seven years of war before independence came in 1783. 
When the children of Israel, under Joshua, went over 
Jordan in 1776, the waters stood up in a heap, symbolizing 
the political aid that the colonists received from the Euro- 
pean nations by their assistance during the struggle with 
England, which was sym'bolized by Jericho. The waters 
(politics) standing up in a heap, symibolized the nations 
that stood in unison in favor of the colonists. 

The same constitution of the man (the United States) 
v/ill at the resurrection of the dead, be adopted by the 
earth (Europe). 

Genesis, Chap. 1-2: "And the earth was waste and 
void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the 
spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." This 
is the face of God that mankind has not yet discerned. 
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temple was a symbol of hiding. His face in his works; 
and waters mean politics. 

Male and female created he them; as woman was 
created after a deep sleep fell upon Adam. Adam sym- 
bolizes the first period of Europe; for when the churches 
were created the earth began to wake up from its deep 
sleep. As Christ brought a sword, that sword was used 
with great efifect for near nineteen hundred years. 

Genesis Chap. 2-2: * * * "God rested the sev- 
enth day from all his work." By numerical calculation 
we find that the seventh period will begin some time be- 
tween the years 1896 and 1901 ; and that there will be 
during that time great constitutional revolutions that the 
resurrections mentioned by the prophets symibolized. 
That creation was nothing but a written constitution for 
the human family and the six ages, or the 6,000 years, are 
symbols. 

Apocryphal New Testament, Barnabas, Chap. 13, 3 to 
7: "And even in the beginning of the creation he makes 
mention of the Sabbath. And God made in six days the 
works of his hands; and he finished them on the seventh 
day, and he rested the seventh day, and sanctihed it." 

4. "Consider, my children, what that signifies; he 
finished them in six days. The meaning of it is this: that 
in six thousand years the Lord God will bring all things 
to an end." 

5. "For with him one day is a thousand years; as him- 
self testifieth, saying. Behold this day shall be as a thou- 
sand years. Therefore, children, in six days, that is, in six 
thousand years, shall all things be accomplished." 

6. "And what is that he saith, and he rested the 
seventh day; he meaneth this: that when his son shall 
come and abolish the season of the wicked one, and judge 
the ungodly ; and shall change the sun and the moon and 
the stars; then he shall gloriously rest in that seventh 
day." 

The constitution of heaven (the United States) was 
symbolized by that creation which was mentioned in the 
first chapiter of Genesis, as that 'mentioned in the fcegin- 
ning of Genesis was merely a declaration of what was to 
come after it. "And the spirit of God moved upon the 



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A CREATION OF SYMBOLS. I2I 

face of the waters." Waters, as we have said before, sym- 
bohze all kinds of politics — as politics of the world. Our 
constitution (that of the United States) was brought over 
in the Ark when the political flood was upon the earth in 
the year 1736. And from that our democratic constitu- 
tion, which symbolized the ancient of days, was derived. 
The very name of ancient of days implies a prior existence, 
as it had ceased to exist at the dispersal of the ten tribes. 
The history of the world for 6,000 symbolic years can be 
found symbolized in that creation. This history can be 
found by numerical calculation, as that creation was a 
numerical problem; and also a sym'bolic constitution, as 
all things created at that creation were symbols and not 
literal; and those symbols were created to govern the 
human family that had 'been in existence for many ages 
prior to that creation; and that creation began to sym- 
bolize the literal creation of God — that of the second 
Adam, which began at the birth of Jesus 'Christ. 

Genesis, Chap. 3-16: "U-nto the woman he said, I 
will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in 
sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and thy desire 
shall be to thy husband." Woman, always symbolizes a 
church. Consequently, Eve was the first church; and she 
was also the wife of the first man, which was Adam ; and 
Adam symbolized the first government after the Christian 
era that was married to the church. Adam was created 
after all the great beasts. Beasts always typify Pagan, 
fanatical, and despotic governments. 

The woman was made out of man (nation) after a 
deep sleep fell upon hhn. The sleep symbolizes the con- 
dition of the Roman empire, which Adam symbolized at 
the beginning of the fifth age ; as he was created at the time 
oi the great sym'bolic creation of six periods that were 
symbolized by six days. That would be about the time 
of the great marriage of the state to the church — sym- 
bolized by the marriage of Adam and Eve. Unto the 
woman (church) he said (after the transgression of Eve, 
m'eaning the church, as there was only one then — the 
great mother church), "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow 
and thy conception. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth 
children." Now the great mother church had many sor- 



122 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

rows, and they increased greatly at the time of the reforma- 
tion, when she began to bring forth her daughters (other 
churches). 

"And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall 
rule over thee." Now the desire of the great church has, 
according to all modern history, been for marriage with 
the state wherever possible; and it has sometimes swayed 
the major part of European politics, but of late the state 
dominates over the church. And he (the state and hus- 
band) shall rule over thee. The great church is married 
to the several European nations, but the national sov- 
ereigns are at the head of the church and have the power 
to direct its affairs. 

Genesis, Chap. 3-17: "And unto Adam he said. Be- 
cause thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife and 
hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, 
thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. 
In toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life." Be- 
cause Adam (state) hearkened to his wife (the church) and 
ate of the tree that was forbidden( the state complied with 
the desire of the church), "In sorrow shalt thou eat of it 
all the days of thy life." Now this assertion means the for- 
bidden fruit of the tree, which could signify nothing but 
the fruits of the marriage of the state and church. 

Genesis, Chap. 3-18: "Thorns also and thistles shall 
it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the 
field." These thorns and thistles are typical of the very 
many contentions between church and state, and they are 
to be seen throughout all modern history. 

Genesis, Chap. 3-20: "And the man called his wife's 
name Eve ; because she was the mother of all living." The 
great Roman Catholic Church gave birth to all that is 
good; that signifies all the living, as anything righteous is 
called by the prophets the living; as a just national con- 
stitution is symibolized by the living, and as the living are 
to be resurrected 'before the dead. This signifies that the 
resurrection of the righteous will come before that of the 
dead (the dead in this connection symbolize the wicked 
nations of the earth, Europe), and the dead are said to 
sleep in the dust of the earth. 



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The prophets speak of the great harlot and the mother 
of harlots; now the harlot signifies a church that is a 
mother of 'churches (harlots). Some may interpret the 
harlots to be national, but in prophecy the nations are 
alluded to in the masculine gender and the churches in the 
feminine; consequently the harlot symbolizes the great 
church that is the mother of all the churches. 

Genesis, Chap. 1-27: "And God created man in his 
own image, in the image of God created he him; male and 
female created he them." This creation of man was male 
(nation) and female (church). They were both created, 
but not yet married. The tree of life that God planted in 
the garden was Christianity, the constitution of the 
churches. 

Genesis, Chap. 2, 22-25: "And the rib which the 
Lord God had taken from the man made he a woman and 
brought her unto the ipan." Bones are the constitutions 
of nations or governments. Jacob commanded his bones 
to be brought out of Egypt; signifying that the Mosaic de- 
mocracy was brought out of Egypt. Afterwards it was 
brought out of antitypical Egypt (Europe). 

25. "And they were 'both naked, the man and his 
wife, and were not ashamed." It seems that after the mar- 
riage of Adam and Eve, and Eve had presented Adam 
with the forbidden iruit, which was the union of church 
and state, that the consequences of that union were such 
that they were ashamed of it; hence the continual thorns 
and thistles. After the marriage of Adam and Eve they 
both became aware that their marriage certificate was not 
as it should have been ; hence their shame. That certificate 
was symbolized 'by their aprons of fig leaves; a flimsy 
tex?ture. Then God seemed to recognize their marriage 
by giving them a better certificate; symbolized by the 
clothing which he made for them out of the skins of beasts, 
which were superior to those made of fig leaves. The 
skins of beasts symbolize the despotic and fanatical nations 
which the churches would be united with. 

The harlot and the mother of harlots are the great 
Roman Catholic Church, the mother of all churches. She 
is called the harlot because of her fornication with the 
kings of the earth (Europe) by the union of church and 



124 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

state, and the mother of harlots, because her daughters 
(the various churches) have followed her example 
and united themselves with the governments of Europe, 
as the Greek church with the Russian government, the 
Episcopal with the English, the Mohammedan with the 
Turkish. In short, as the mother (the Roman Catholic 
Church) has dealt with the countries of Southern Europe, 
so has her daughters with the nations of the North. The 
appellation of harlot will only apply to the great church in 
her fornication with the kings of the earth in the union of 
church and State. 



The Abomination of Desolation^ Which Was the Colo- 
nial Stamp Act of the Year Seventeen Hundred and 
Sixty-Jive. 

Palestine, as a Roman Graeko-Syrian province, sym- 
bolized the eastern part of the American Israel from the 
landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in 1620 until 
the year 1801, an interval of 181 years. 

•Macca'bees, Book I., Chap, i, i to 8: "And it hap- 
pened that after that Alexander, the son of Philip the 
Macedonian, who came out of the land of Chittim, had 
smitten Darius, King of the Persians and Medes, that he 
reigned in his stead, the first over Greece." 

2. "And made many wars and won m.any strong- 
holds, and slew the kings of the earth." 

3. "And went through to the ends of the earth, and 
took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was 
quiet before him, whereupon he was exalted and his heart 
lifted up." 

4. "And he gathered a mighty strong host, and ruled 
over countries and nations and kings, who became tribu- 
taries unto him." 

5. "And after these 'things he fell sick, and perceived 
that he should die." 

6. "Wherefore he called his servants, such as were 
honorable, and had been brought up with him from his 
youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was 
yet alive." 



THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION. 125 

7. "So Alexander reigned twelve years, and then 
died." 

Alexander the Great, the son of Philip of Macedon, 
came to the throne on the assassination of his father and 
ruled twelve years, conquering and su'bduing the greater 
part of the earth. He died in the thirty-third year of his 
age, and having no heir of suitable age, was succeeded by 
his generals, who, with their sons and successors, reigned 
many years over the divided empire of Alexander the 
Great. 

The empire of Alexander the Great sym'bolized the 
British empire in the 143d year — 1763. The treaty of 
Paris, 1763, was typified by the success of Alexander the 
Great. The British had just previously made many wars 
and won many strongholds, and slew some of the kings of 
the earth (Europe). 

And went through to the ends of the earth. India is 
the ends of the earth, as the prophetic earth goes no fur- 
ther east than the conquests of Alexander the Great. 

The British had just previous to 1763 made the same 
conquests in India that Alexander 'the Great had made in 
about 333 B. C. Yet the name of Alexander is used in the 
Book of Maccabees, but it is a typical description of the 
British rather than that of the Macedonians, because the 
143d year after the year 1620 and many other circum- 
stances dating from the landing of the pilgrims in the 
years 1620. 

Maccabees, Book I., Chap, i, 11-13: 'Tn those days 
went there out of Israel wicked men who persuaded many, 
saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen." 

13. "Then certain of the people were so forward 
herein that they went to the king, who gave them license 
to do after the ordinances of the heathen." 

This means that certain persons asked and received 
from the King of England grants of land in America and 
charters for the government of the people who settled 
there. These people who obtained authority from the 
king were afterwards Tories in the revolutionary war and 
used their power to oppress the people and injure colonial 
institutions. 

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126 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the 
customs of the heathen." 

The antitypical Jerusalem, as we have endeavored 
to show all through this work, is America ; and the build- 
ing O'f a place of exercise was the authority from the King 
of England, which the Tories and Emelish officers used 
for the oppression of the patriots. 

Maccabees, Book I., Chap. 1-20: "And after An- 
tiochus had smitten Egypt he returned again in the hun- 
dred and forty and third year, and went up against Israel 
and Jerusalem with a great multitude." The year 1620, 
the date of the landing of the Pilgrims, is the year from 
which we now reckon. 

One hundred and forty-three years after 1620, or in 
1763, Antiochus went up against Israel and Jerusalem (the 
colonial states) with a great multitude. This points to the 
act quartering British soldiers on the colonists after the 
close of the war between England and France, after 
Antiochus (England) had smitten Egypt (France) in 1763. 

Maccabees, Book I., Chap. 1-29: "And after two 
years fully expired the king sent his chief collector of 
tribute unto the cities of Juda, who came unto Jerusalem 
with a great multitude." Two years after 1763, in 1765, 
the English Parliament passed the stamp act, and the chief 
collector and a multitude of of^cials came to this country 
to enforce payment of the tax. 

Macabees, Book I., Chap, i, 30-44: * * * "And 
spake peaceable words unto them, but all was deceit." 

These who came to enforce the provisions ot the 
stamp act talked peaceably to the people, but intended 
their subjugation all the time. 

33. "Then builded they the city of David, with a 
great and strong wall, and with mighty towers, and made 
it a stronghold for them." 

This is the meeting of the first Continental Congress, 
which met in New York, October 7th, 1765, and passed a 
declaration of rights and grievances, which included the 
right to be taxed only with their own con/sent. This doc- 
ument they laid before the King and Parliament. A great 
and strong wall and mighty towers indicates the strength 



THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION. 127 

ana endurance of the principles laid down by the Contin- 
ental Congress. That declaration of rights has stood ever 
since it was signed and grows even stronger with the 
passing of time. 

Maccabees, Book I., Chap. 1-54: "Now the fifteenth 
day of the month Caslue, in the hundred and forty and fiftn 
year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the 
altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Juda 
on every side." 

One hundred and forty-five years after 1620, the stamp 
act went into effect in America, by which it was proposed 
to raise a revenue by requiring stamps to be placed upon 
all papers and parchments, deeds, wills and other docu- 
ments. This became a law in November, 1765 (the month 
Caslue corresponds to the month of November). 

At length the momentous day (the. first of November) 
arrived. It was observed as a day of fasting and mourn- 
ing. Funeral processions paraded the streets of cities, and 
bells tolled funeral knells; the colors of sailing vessels 
were placed at half-mast, and newspapers exhibited the 
black-line tokens of public grief. The courts were now 
closed, legal marriages ceased, ships remained in port, and 
for some time all business was suspended. But the lull in 
the storm was of brief duration. The people only gathered 
strength for more vigorous achievements in defense of 
their rights. The sons of Hberty put forth new efforts; 
mobs began to assail the residences of ofBcials, and burn 
distinguished royalists in effigy. Merchants entered into 
agreements notto'import goods from Great Britain while 
the obnoxious act remained a law; and domestic manu- 
factures were commenced in almost every family. The 
wealthiest vied with the middle classes in economy, and 
wore clothing of their own manufacture. That wool might 
not become scarce, the use of sheep fiesh for food was dis- 
couraged. Soon from all classes in America there went 
to the ears of the British ministry a respectful but firm 
protest. It was seconded by the merchants and manufac- 
turers of London, whose American trade was prostrated, 
and the voice thus made potential was heard and heeded 
in high places. 

■Matthew, Chap. 24-15: "When therefore ye see the 



128 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

abomination of desolation, wliich was s -oken of by Daniel, 
the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that 
readeth understand), then let them that are in Judea flee 
unto 'the mountains." 

Let him that reads understand. Tha't means that this 
is difficult and requires much study. Flee unto the 
mountains. That is, to the strong civil governments 
which they were building up. 

Matthew, Chap. 24-17: "Let him that is on the 
housetop not go down to take out the things that are in 
the house." 

They were not to preserve and carry with them the 
old English institutions which they had at that time. 

Matthew, Chap. 24-18: "And let hi a that is in the 
field not turn back to take his cloak." 

This refers 'to the constitutional laws they were under 
then — 1776; the old English laws of that time they were 
to abandon them. Cloak is to hide or conceal, and is, ac- 
cording to the latest version of the new testament, while 
the older versions have it clothes. Now garments in the 
prophecies always symbolize constitutions or governing 
laws of some kind. 

Macca'bees, Book L, Chap. 6-16: "So Antiochus died 
there in the hundred and forty and ninth year." 

The one hundred and forty-ninth year from 1620 is 
1769. In that year the Virginia Assembly passed resolu- 
tions maintaining the right of self-taxation, petition, re- 
monstrance and to the local trial of offenders, which resolu- 
tions are also passed by the Assemblies of South Carolina, 
North Carolina, Delaware and -Maryland. This is a loss 
of power by England, and is what is meant by the death 
of Antiochus, who symbolized the ruling power of mon- 
archy. 

Maccabees, Book L, Chap. 10, 15 to 33: "Now when 
King Alexander had heard what promises Demetrius had 
sent unto Jonathan ; when also it was told him of the bat- 
tles and noble acts which he and his brethren had done, 
and of the pains they had endured." 

16. "He said, shall we find such another man? Now, 
therefore, we will make him our friend and confederate." 



UNITED STATES, FRANCE AND HOLLAND. 129 

17. "Upon this he wrote a letter and sent it unto him, 
according to these words, saying:" 

18. "King Alexander to his brother Jonathan sendeth 
greeting." 

19. "We have heard of thee, that thou art a man of 
great power, and meet to be our friend." 

20. "Wherefore, now, this day we ordain thee to be 
the high priest of thy nation, and to be called the King's 
friend (and therewithal he sent him a purple robe and a 

■own of gold), and require thee to take our part and keep 
friendship with us." 

21. "So in the seventh month of the hundred and six- 
tieth year, at the feast of the tabernacles, Jonathan put on 
the holy robe and gathered together forces and provided 
much armour." 

22. "W'hereof when Demetrius heard, he was very 
s '"ry and said:" 

2Ty. "What have we done that Alexander hath pre- 
vented us in making amity with the Jews to strengthen 
himself?" 

24. "I also will write unto them words of encourage- 
men, and promise them dignities and gifts, that I may 
have their aid." 

25. "He sent unto them, therefore, to this effect: 
King Demetrius unto the people of the Jews sendeth 
greeting." 

26. "Whereas, ye have kept covenants With us, and 
continued in our friendship, not joining yourself with our 
nemies, we have heard hereof, and are glad." 

2J. "Whereof now continue ye still to be faithful unto 
us, and we will recompense you for the things ye do in our 
behalf." 

28. "And we will grant you many immunities and 
give you rewards." 

29. "And now do I free you, and for your sake I 
release all the Jews from tributes and from the customs of 
salt and from crown taxes." 

30. "And from that which ap-pertaineth unto me to 
receive for the third part of the seed, and the half of the 
fruit of the trees, I release it from this day forth, so that 
they shall not be taken of the land of Judea, nor of the 



130 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

three governments which are added thereunto out of the 
country of Samaria and GaHlee, from this day forth for 
evermore." 

31. "Let Jerusalem also be holy and free, with the 
borders thereof, both from tenths and tributes." 

32. "And as for the tower which is at Jerusalem, I 
yield up my authority over it, and give it to the high priest, 
that he may set in it such men as he shall choose to 
keep it." 

When King Alexander was told of the battles and 
noble acts which Jonathan had done and of the pains that* 
they had endured. 

This was in the 159th year, which, if added to 1620, 
the year the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, it brings 
us to the year 1779. 

Shortly after the battle of Saratoga and capture of 
Burgoyne's army by the Americans, Bryant has this to 
say: "The surrender of Burgoyne's army on the 17th of 
October was, up to this time, the most important event of 
the war; and 'the battles of September igth and October 
7th are counted among the decisive battles of the world." 
Then the King of France (Alexander) made a treaty with 
the United States (Jonathan). This was the first treaty 
that the United States, as a nation, made with any foreign 
power, and this, more than any other one thing, con- 
tributed to the success of the Americans. 

Wherefore, when Demetrius (Holland) heard, he was 
very sorry and said, What have we done that Alexander 
hath prevented us in making amity with the Jews to 
strengthen himself? I also will write unto them words of 
encouragement. 

Holland, soon after the treaty between America and 
France, began to negotiate a treaty with the United States. 
Henry Laurens, when on his way to Holland with a draft 
of 'this treaty, was captured by the British and imprisoned 
in the tower for two years, when he was exchanged for 
Cornwallis. This treaty caused England to declare war 
against Holland. 

On February 17th, 1778, Lord North, the British 
Prime Minister, introduced two bills into Parliament, by 



TREATY WITH FRANCE AND HOLLAND. 131 

which Great Britain virtually conceded all that had been 
the cause of controversy with the Americans, and offered 
more than they had asked previous to their Declaration of 
Independence. 

The bills passed and a commission was appointed to 
proceed to America and negotiate a peace with Congress. 
Congress promptly rejected the offer and refused any 
negotiations until. Great Britain withdrew her fleet and 
army and in clear 'terms acknowledged the independence 
of the United States. 

Maccabees, Book L, 10, 46-47: "Now when Jonathan 
and the people heard these words, they gave no credit unto 
them, nor received them, because they remembered the 
great evil that he had done in Israel; for he had afflicted 
them very sore. 

47. "But with Alexander they were well pleased, be- 
cause he was the first that entreated of true peace with 
then , and they were confederate with him always. 

The forty-isixith verse above quoted foretells exactly 
the rejection of the British offers of peace to the Americans 
in the year 1778 ; and the following verse tells of the friend- 
ship that existed between Jonathan (United States) and 
Alexander (France) and of their treaty, the first made by 
the United States with any foreign power. 

■Maccabees, 'Book I., Chap. 12-21: "It is found in 
writing that the Lacedemonians and Jews are brethren 
and that they lare of the stock of Abraham." This is proof 
that there were other Jews as well as other Israelites than 
those who came out of Egypt with Moses. 

Maccabees, Book I., Chap. 14, 16-17-18: "Now when 
it was hard at Rome, as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was 
dead, they were very sorry. 

17. "But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon 
was made high priest in his stead, and ruled the country 
and the cities therein," 

18. "They wrote umto him in tables of brass to renew 
the friendship and league which they had made with Judas 
and Jonathan, his brethren." 

What is meanitby the death of Jonathan and by his being 
superseded by his -brother Simon is the event of the new 



132 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Federal Constitution superseding that of the continental 
confederacy, which was on Wednesday, the 4th day of 
March, 1789, when the oldiContinental Congress expired, 
and the national constitution became the organic law of 
ihe Republic. 

When Rome (Europe), and even as far as Sparta, 
heard of our new constitution, its adoption and the new 
order of things, those nations of Europe which had 
treaties with us already manifested a desire for a continua- 
tion of the same, which were Spain, Holland and France; 
besides other countries (Sparta), which had not yet had 
treaties with our country, opened negotiations for the 
same. 

Maccabees, Book L, Chap. 16, 1-2-3: "Then came up 
John from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what Cen- 
debus had done." 

2. "Wherefore Simon called his two eldest son, Judas 
and John, and said unto them, I and ^my brethren and my 
father's house have ever from our youth unto this day 
fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have 
prospered so well in our hands that we have delivered 
Israel oftentimes." 

3. "But now I am old, and ye, by God's mercy, are of 
a sufficient age; be ye instead of me and 'my 'brother, and 
go and fight for our nation, and the help from heaven be 
with you." 

Wherefore Simon (voice of the peop-le, headed by 
that of Washington's) called his two eldest sons (two polit- 
ical parties), Judas (Thomas Jefferson) and John (John 
Adams), and said unto them, I and imy brethren (Wash- 
ington and his followers) and my father's house have ever 
from our youth unto this day fought against the enemies 
of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands 
that we have delivered Israel oftentimes. 

The two sons of Simon were created, of course, dur- 
ing the time of Washington's two administrations, which 
at his death (meaning the time he went out of office at the 
end of his second term) he handed down to his two eldest 
sons. 

These two sons symbolized the two political parties 



DEFEAT OF EHE FEDERALISTS. 133 

of that day, viz. : the Federal party, under the leadership 
of John Adams, and 'the Republican party, under that of 
Thomas Jefferson. John symbolizes the Federalist party 
and Judas the Repu*blican; the latter later on assuming the 
title of Democratic party. 

The manner by which Simon turned the government 
over to his two sons, Judas and John, 'March 4Ah, 1797, 
was 'brought about 'through the medium of the election for 
President and Vice President, held the preceding fall, and 
was as follows : 

The result was that while Adams had seventy-two 
votes, just the number necessary for a choice, Mr. Pinck- 
ney had but fifty-nine. Jefferson, whose votes were all 
given by persons in opposition to Adams, had sixty-eight 
votes — ^not a majority. The Senate had to choose him or 
Pinckney Vice President, and chose Jefferson. Thus the 
head of one party was chosen President and the head of 
the other Vice President of the republic. 

Maccabees, Book I., Chap. 16, 14-15-16: "Now 
Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and 
taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time 
he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mat- 
tathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seven- 
teenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sabat." 

15. "W'here the son of Abubus receiving them deceit- 
fully into a little hold, called Docus, which he had built, 
made them a great banquet; howbeit he had hid men 
there." 

16. "So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely, 
Ptolemeeandhismen rose up and took their weapons, and 
came upon Simon into the banqueting place and slew him 
and his two sons and certain of his servants." 

This tells of the death or downfall of the Federalist 
party; the party to which Washington (Simon) belonged. 
Its defeat was caused by the passing of the alien and sedi- 
tion laws. 

These two unpopular measures provided for the ex- 
pulsion from the country of any alien who should be 
suspected of conspiring against the republic, and the sup- 



134 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

pression of any publication calculated to weaken the au- 
thority of the government. 

An apology for the alien law was, that it was com- 
puted that there were more than thirty thousand French- 
men in the United States, all of whom were devoted to 
their own country, and were mostly associated in clubs. 
Besides all these, there were computed to be in the 
country at least fifty thousand persons who had been sub- 
jects of Great Britain, some of whom had found it unsafe 
to remain at home. 

At that period there were two hundred newspapers 
published in 'the United States, of which about one hun- 
dred and seventy-five were in favor of the national admin- 
istration, the remainder were chiefiy under the control of 
aliens. These measures were unpopular, because they 
might lead to great abuses. In Kentucky and Virginia 
the Legislatures declared them to be decidedly unconsti- 
tutional, and they were finally repealed. 

Simon coming down to Jericho symbolizes the Fed- 
eralists, headed by Washington, in their supporting the alien 
and sedition laws, which in substance approached mon- 
archy, as Jericho symbolizes monarchy. See in another 
place in this volume how the children of Israel, under 
Joshua, marched around the walls of Jericho (monarchy) 
for seven consecutive days (years) before the walls of 
Jericho (monarchy) fell in 1783 at the end of the seven 
years of war for independence. Thus Jericho symbolizes 
the institutions of monarchy from 1776 until 1783. Also, 
it did the same under the sedition and tne alien laws in 
1796 and 1797, when the Federalists, or at least the mon- 
archial principles of it, were defeated. 

Maccabees, Book I., Chap. 16, 23-24. "As concern- 
ing the rest of the acts of John and his wars and worthy 
deeds which he did and the building of the walls which 
he made and his doings." 

24. "Behold, these are written in the chronicles of his 
priesthood (the history of his administration at Washing- 
ton) from the time he was made high priest (time he 
assumed the office oi President) after his father." 

The wars, worthy deeds and walls (su'bstantial laws) 



OUR VOTING BOOTHS. 135 

which John built can all be found in the chronicles of our 
Presidents (history) of the United States and of our Presi- 
dential administrations. 

I. Maccabees, Chap. 10-20: "Wherefore now this 
day we ordain thee to be the high priest of thy nation, and 
to be called 'the king's friend (and therewithal he sent him 
a purple robe and a crown of gold), and require thee to 
take our part and keep friendship with us." 

The aibove is in exact accordance with the treaty 
between the United States and France, as on the loth day 
of the seventh month in the i6oth year, which would be 
160 years after 1620, in the year 1780, when on the loth 
day of August a powerful French fleet, under Admiral 
Ternay, with 6,000 soldiers, under the Count D'Rocham- 
beau, arrives at Newport, R. I., and to prevent a conflict 
of authority the King of France, at the personal soHcita- 
tion of Lafayette, appoints Washington a lieutenant gen- 
eral of France, by which he outranks the Count and be- 
comes commander-in-chief of the united forces. 

I. Maccabees, Chap. 10-21: "So in the seventh 
month of the hundred and sixtieth year, at the feast of the 
tabernacles, Jonathan put on the holy robe, and gathered 
together forces, and provided much armour." 

The purple robe and crown of gold symbolized Wash- 
ington's commission from the King of France. So in the 
seventh month of the i6oth year, at the feast of the taber- 
nacles, Jonathan, who symbolized the Continental Con- 
gress under one supreme head, that was declared in con- 
vention at Boston in August, 1780, which was symbolized 
by Jonathan putting on the holy robe at the feast of the 
tabernacles in the i6oth year, as 160 years after 1620, 
would be in the year 1780. 

The old Jewish feast of the tabernacles symbolized 
our elections or conventions, where new administrations 
(houses) were created, the same as the convention of the 
New England States, held in Boston in August, 1780. 
Then, again, our elections of the present day were sym- 
bolized by the feast of tabernacles, when the people 
built themselves booths in the seventh month, which cor- 
responds to our month of November. 

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136 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Jerusalem, symbolized our balloting booths of the pres- 
ent day. The feasts, when the people built themselves 
booths, are mentioned by the prophets as a later origin, 
as the feasts of the tabernacles are mentioned many times 
by the prophets 'l^efore there is anything said about the 
people's booths. 

The news of the capture of Burgoyne's army on the 
17th of October, 1777, caused a deep sensation in Europe. 
The English people were astonished and afflicted; and it 
caused the French to acknowledge the independence of 
the United States, and a treaty of alliance was made on the 
6th of February, 1778, by which it was stipulated that 
France and the United States should make common 
cause; and that neither party should make either peace or 
truce with England without the consent of the other; and 
neither party lay down their arms till the independence of 
the United States was secured. The American commis- 
sioners, Franklin, Deane, and Lee, were received at the 
court of France as the representatives of a sister union. 
M. Gerard was appointed minister to the United States. 
Dr. Franklin, still in France, was, the following Septem- 
ber, made minister plenipotenitary. 

Leviticus, Chap. 2^, 41-42-43: "And ye shall keep it 
a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year; it is a statute 
forever in your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh 
montn." (Mark the assertion, forever.) 

42. "Yeishall dwell in booths seven days; all that are 
homeiborn in Israel shall dwell in booths." 

The seven days (years) may symbolize the qualifica- 
tion of voters under our registration laws. 

All that are home-born shall dwell in booths. Of 
course, the voting booths are used in the present day, and 
the seven days may mean seven years, and may be an or- 
dinance that is yet to be adopted in our naturalization laws. 

43. "That your generations may know that I made 
the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought 
them out of the land of Egypt." 

The words, your generations, implies other genra- 
tions than came out of Egypt with Moses. 



Liberia and the Pyramids. 

The Temple- Republic of Liberia Like Unto that in 
Jerusalefn (^United States') That Was Built on the 
West Coast of Africa (^Egypt) After the Tear j6i6^ 
Forty 7'ears After the Tear lyjd. 

The Friendship that Was Between Onias arid Ptolemy 
Bhilometor; and How Onias Built a Temple in 
Egypt Like to that at ferusaletn. 

Antiquities, Book XIII., Chap. 3-1: "But then the 
son of Onias, the high priest, who was of the same name 
with his father, and who fled to King Ptolemy, who was 
called Philometor, lived now at Alexandria, as we have 
said already. When 'this Onias saw that Judea was op- 
pressed by the Macedonians, and their kings, out of a de- 
sire to purchase to him^self a memorial and eternal fame, 
he resolved to send to King Ptolemy and Queen Cleopatra 
to ask leave of them that he might build a temple in Egypt, 
like to that at Jerusalem, and might ordain Levites and 
priests out of their own stock. The chief reason why he 
was desirous so to do was that he relied upon the prophet 
Isaiah, who lived about six hundred years before, and 
foretold that there certainly was to be a temple built to 
Almighty God in Egypt, by a man that was a Jew. Onias 
was elevated with this prediction; and wrote the following 
epistle to Ptolemy and Cleopatra: 'Having done many 
and great things for you in the affairs of war, by the assist- 
ance of God, and that in Celesyria and Phenicia, I came 
at length with the Jews to Leontopolis, and to other places 
of your nation, where I found that the greatest part of 
your people had temples in an improper manner, and that 
on this account they bare ill-will one against another, 
which happens to the Egyptians by reason of the multi- 
tude of their temples, and the difiference of opinion about 

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138 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

divine worship. Now I found a very fit place in a castle 
that hath its name from the country Diana; this place is 
full of materials of several sorts, and replenished with 
sacred animals. I desire, therefore, that you will grant 
me leave to purge this holy place, which belongs to no mas- 
ter, and is fallen down, and to 'build there a temple to Al- 
mighty God, after the pattern of that in Jerusalem, and of 
the same dimensions, that may be for the benefit of thy- 
self, and thy wife and children, that those Jews which 
dwell in Egypt may have a place whither they may come 
and meet together in mutual harmony, one with another, 
and be subservient to thy advantages; for the prophet 
Isaiah foretold that there should be an altar in Egypt to 
the Lord God; and many other such things did he 
prophecy relating to that place.' " 

2. "And this is what Onias wrote to King Ptolemy. 
Now, anyone may observe his piety and that of his sister 
and wife Cleopatra by that epistle which they wrote in 
answer to it; for they laid the blame and the transgression 
of the law upon the head of Onias. And this was their re- 
ply: 'King Ptolemy and Queen Cleopatra to Onias send 
greeting: We have read thy petition, wherein thou de- 
siresit leave to be given thee to purge that temple which 
has fallen down at Leontopolis, in the Nomus of Heli- 
opolis, and which is named from the country Buhastis; on 
which account we cannot but wonder that it should be 
pleasing to God to have a temple erected in a place so 
unclean and so full of sacred animals. But, since thou 
sayest that Isaiah the prophet foretold this long ago, we 
give thee leave to do it, if it may be done according to your 
law, and so that we may not appear to have at all offended 
God herein.' " 

3. "So Onias took the place and built a temple and an 
altar to God, like, indeed, to that in Jerusalem, but smaller 
and poorer. I do not think it proper for me now to de- 
scribe its dimensions or its vessels, which have been 
already described in my seventh book of the wars of the 
Jews. However, Onias foundother Jews like to himself, to- 
gether with priests and Levites, that there performed di- 
vine service. But we have said enough about this temple." 



LIBERIA AND THE PYRAMIDS. 139 

In the scriptures, Eg-ypt syrmbolizes all Africa; hence 
the altar in the land of Egypt to the Lord, and the pillar at 
the border thereof to the Lord. 

Liberia, though one of the most inferior republics, is 
called a pillar by the prophets. Josephus calls it a temple, 
like indeed to that in Jerusalem (United States), but smaller 
and poorer, thus plainly showing the favor of the Almighty 
toward a government of the people and for the people, the 
same as his great United States (mountain) that he is 
building on top of his mountains (States). 

Josephus describes the vessels in the temple of Li- 
bria, allegorically, in his seventh book of the wars of the 
Jews. The temple symbolized the constitution, and the 
vessels symbolize the constitutional amendments, whether 
good or bad, and they symlbolize all iniquitious bills lob- 
bied through Congress, and it is what Christ meant when 
he would not sufifer that any man should carry a vessel 
through the temple. 

Mark, Chap. 11, 15-16: "And they came to Jeru- 
salem; and he entered the temple and began to cast out 
them that sold and them that bought in the temple, and 
overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats 
of them that sold the doves." 

16. "And he would not sufifer that any man should 
carry a vessel through the temple." 

The present state of our famished finances will bring 
about all of these reforms, and it will be the resurrection, 
which is the transfiguration, and it will be accomplished 
in about three and a half years from the 26th of July, 1896, 
when the fire-brand was hurled through the golden win- 
dow of the temple by the Populist and Silver parties en- 
dorsing the silver wing of Democracy at St. Louis. 

Ezekiel, Chap. 29, 6-13-14-16: "And all the inhab- 
itants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because 
they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel." 

In prophecy all Africans are termed Egyptians; hence 
they were a stalT or reed to the Israel of America, in their 
servitude to them in the days of slavery. 

13. "For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of 
forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples 
whither they were scattered," 



I40 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

14. "And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, 
and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into 
the land of their birth; and they shall be there a base 
kingdom." 

16. "And it shall be no more the confidence of the 
house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when 
they turn to look after them; and they shall know that I 
am the Lord God." 

At the end of forty years the Egyptians (Africans) did 
return to Liberia (Egypt). Liberia is a republic on the 
west coast of Africa, which owes its origin to the Ameri- 
can Colonization Society. This society was formed on the 
last day of the year 1816, or just forty years after 1776. 
Mark how precise the prophecy in saying, after forty 
years, as the 'Colonization Society was formed on the last 
day of 1816. 

Isaiah, Chap. 19-19: "In that day shall there be an 
altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and 
a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord." 

"And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the 
Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto 
the Lord because of the oppressors and he shall send them 
a Savior and a defender, and he shall deliver them." — 
Isaiah, Chap. 19-20. 

This is their (the African's) savior, the Son of Man 
(John Brown). 

"So Onias took the place and built a temple and altar 
to God, like indeed to that of Jerusalem, but smaller and 
poorer." (Liberia was like unto the United States, but 
smaller and poorer.) "I do not think it proper for me 
now to describe its dimensions or its vessels" (constitu- 
tional laws). "However, Onias found other Jews like to 
himself, together with priests and Levites, that there per- 
formed divine service" (the civil olifiicers of the govern- 
ment). "But we have said enough of this temple." — 'An- 
tiquities, Book XIII., Chap. 3-3. 

Isaiah says: "An altar and a pillar at the border 
thereof." Liberia answers wonderfully to the border. 
Further Isaiah says: "It shall be for a sign and for a wit- 
ness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt." 



The Temple of Dendera in Egypt. 

Antiquarians tell us that the construction of this tem- 
ple was begun by one of the Ptolmies two hundred and 
fifty years before the Christian era, and was completed 
under Emperor Tiberius, while our Savior was yet living 
in Palestine, and that some of its decorations were added 
in the reign of Nero. The temple sems to combine the 
history of mythology and the science of ancient Egypt. 

It is elaborate, equally in design and execution. Its 
halls and cham'bers can hardly be counted. Its walls, 
ceilings, columns, doors, windows, capitals, surbases, 
pedestals, and even its staircases, are crowded with texts 
and bas-reliefs, all of which have such a mutual sugges- 
tiveness that we venture to penetrate some of their mean- 
ing, and some of the ceremonies of their worship. 

The ceremonies consisted in processions, sacrifices, 
and offerings, which seemingly was offered to one su- 
preme being in 'three characters, the chief character being 
Isis. 

There is a well-marked division of the cham'bers of 
the temple into four groups; the first a vestibule like an 
open hall, in place of a propylaeum which was customary 
in ancient Egypt. 

There was one group of ten chambers found to be 
closed and painted black, the walls of one of which were 
ornamented with four boats, resemibling somewhat those 
now in use on the Nile; the boats being carried in pro- 
cession. Each of these boats contained a chest or box, 
covered with a thick white veil, the chests corresponding 
exactly with the descriptions of the Ark of the Covenant 
carried 'by the Israelites through the wilderness on their 
forty years' journey from Egypt to the land of Canaan. 

The offerings to the gods as painted on the walls 
were of birds, animals, fine clothing, and ornaments of 

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142 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

silver and gold, with two sanctuaries, one dedicated to 
Osiris, the other to Isis. The -former is ornamented with 
a representation of his death, resurrection and triumph. 

There is a small interior structure in a complete form 
of a temple, in which was celebrated the feasts of the new 
year, which event took its date from a transit of Sirius. 
It has itwelve columns^, which are respectively dedicated 
to the several .months of the year. 

Then there are labyrinthian subterranean chambers,- 
■called crypts. They are without doors or windows, and 
yet their walls are covered with inscriptions, and these 
recite the date of their construction, but not their use. 
Supposition is that they were built as places of deposit 
and concealment of the treasures, vestments, and sacred 
vessels of the temple, in case of some evolution or sur- 
prise by an enemy, 

Cleopatra caused the ornamentation of the outer wall 
to be completed with an intaglio of herself, and another 
of her son, the child of Julius Caesar, the outlines of which 
agree with that eccentric and fascinating queen. This 
temple was in process of building, or at least its embel- 
lishments were going on, until about the time Christ was 
born, when it began to decay, and all of its gods, Osiris, 
Isis, Thot, Horus, Pasht, and others, were from that time 
reckoned with mythology, and went into the past, that 
the scriptures might be fulfilled: out of Egypt have I called 
my son. 

Now what can we find in the midst of Egypt to sym- 
bolize an altar to the Lord? We must look for some- 
thing conspicuous and something that is well known to 
civilization, although it may contain a veiled meaning; 
as all 'things used by the prophets as symbols are con- 
spicuous, as all miracles will be literally enacted through 
ages in the future; as the coming or rebuilding of the 
United States of Israel is represented by many miracles, 
all of which were foretold ages past; yet their meaning was 
veiled. 

If the miracles of Scripture were enacted in the sight 
of men before the Scriptures were written, then the pur- 
pose for which they were created would seem to be a 
failure, as the great majority of men do not believe in 



THE TEMPLE OF DENDERA IN EGYPT. 143 

miracles; the theology of to-day does not comprehend 
the immensity of the miracles. The Scriptures arid what 
they have caused are the only miracles that mankind ever 
beheld. The creation was a stupendous miracle, as the 
heaven and the earth and the things that are there and 
therein were created in six days. 

A day with the Lord is as a year or as a thousand 
years; hence the creation was finished on about July 4th 
1896. In the midst of the creation God says, in 
Genesis 1-14: * * * "And let them be for signs and 
for seasons and for days and years." And God said plainly 
and distinctly that what he had created was to be for 
symbols, meaning that those symbols that he was creating 
were to symbolize the creation in its advancing course 
down through the six ages. Thus miracles are hiero- 
glyphs upon the walls of prophecy. 

The Great Pyramid. 

The most conspicuous features of Egypt are its great 
buildings, its temples and pyramids, of which the latter 
is the greatest. The great Cheops, built upon the hill 
Gizeh, is the mightiest of them all; the cubic volume of 
this great structure is 91,000,000 cubic feet, and its weight 
is about 7,000,000 tons. It would impoverish an average 
nation to construct its equal. 

Both Egypt and the greatest of pyramids ante-date 
history, there being no record of their infancy. 

The inquiry has ever been. For what was this great 
structure created? In the year, 825 A. D. Caliph Al- 
mamoun, the Mohammedan ruler of Cairo, became con- 
vinced that vast treasure was stored within the pyramid 
and employed men to open the mystery. For many 
months, in a hot and dusty hole, they slowly worked their 
way into the great pyramid, but no treasury or mystery 
was unveiled. Discontent among 'the people warned the 
Caliph that to go further with such draughts on his treas- 
ury would cause revolution. The workmen had thrown 
down their tools, but there was a destiny; in the midst of 
the silence a dull, heavy sound of falling masonry was 
heard near them, but farther in the rock. All sprang to 
their work again, and in the direction of the sound they 
soon burst into a passageway of wonderful finish and 



144 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

polish. They had come near the junction of the ascend- 
ing passage with the descending one that had been con- 
cealed by a massive keystone that had slidden down into 
the mouth of the ascending shaft when the pyramid was 
finished, long before history began. 

In their work they had loosened the great porticullis 
stone, and, falling, it defied all their efforts to remove. 
But the now hopeful Arabs soon dug around the massive 
block, and found the ascending passage, but it was filled 
with rubble stone and broken rock, which they slowly 
removed. Up and up the long ascending fioor-lines they 
pushed their doubtful way, till near the end of the grand 
gallery; then they had to climb over a three-foot step; 
then they had to creep beneath a low doorway, bounded 
on all sides with massive red granite masonry, and then 
leaped into the grand chamber, the first to enter since the 
mighty structure was sealed; but they found nothing but 
an empty stone chest, since named the Coffer, or Sar- 
cophagus. 

After this the pyramid had a long rest. The hole that 
Almamoun and his men had made to connect with the 
main ascending passage became filled with rubbish, and 
finally obscured; and, as the regular entrance had not 
been opened, the nightfall of centuries again passed over 
its mysteries. 

But the Arabs had discovered much, and it was not 
wholly forgotten. In the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- 
turies a new interest again became manifest among Euro- 
pean scientists in the great pyramid, and Almamoun's 
hole was again reopened; passages were cleared and new 
excavations made, and the antiquarian world began to 
investigate the monument, whose vastness and hidden 
purposes are beginning to loom up through the ages and 
overshadow man and his modern sciences. 

But a great mystery remains in the history of the 
pyramid. Was it ibuilt for a tomt)? The ancient Egyp- 
tians buried their dead in the rock, but for their eminent 
dead they built temples and tombs. 

Thousands of rock tom'bs surround the greater pyra- 
mid, and all the other pyramids were tombs, according 
to the judgment of Egyptologists; and mummies have 



CHEOPS, THE GREATEST OF PYRAMIDS. 145 

been found in the Sarcophagi within their sepulchral 
chambers. The pyramids are all differently constructed 
in their interiors. 

The upper and sym'bolic chambers of the greater 
pyramid were sealed by a great stone, which never has 
been removed, but is passed by digging around. 

No attempt was made to pattern after the greater 
pyramid by the builders of the minor ones, by construct- 
ing similar upper passages and chambers. 

"In EngUsh inches, the grand chamber of the greater 
pyramid is 412.5 long; breadth is 206.2 inches. The silver 
dollar of our fathers weighs 412.5 grains; the half-aollar 
206.5 grains, and the quarter-dollar 103.03 grains, which 
last is an important pyramid num^ber. The dollar was the 
weight of an Eastern coin of traditional age, current in 
Asiatic trade; and ours was made to correspond. Ihe 
dates of this coin can probably be traced to the trans- 
edomitic commerce. 

The pyramid height, in sacred cubids, is 232.5. The 
gold eagle weighs 232.5 grains; half eagle 116 grains. 

The diameter of a circle is to the side of a square of 
equal area as 9 to 8, within an incommensurable fraction ; 
then the proportion 8:9:: 103.132 : 116 shows not only 
that the weights of the quarter-dollar and half eagle are 
proportional, but exhibit a peculiar squaring of the circle 
proportion. Any circle having 116.26 for a diameter is 
equal in area to a square having 103.03 on a side. The 
latter number is accepted by all pyramid students as the 
measuring rod of the pyramid; being the length of the 
granite in the ante-chamber. At the same time 116.26 is 
the entire length of the ante-chamber. Mark this well; 
if this coin came to us through the changeless numismatics 
of the East, whose standards are Semitic, and the channel 
of Indian commerce was through Edom (a kingdom of the 
Esanite Troglodytes, descendants of Israel), and they rep- 
resent a quadrature proportion, where did they get those 
coins? But mark further; this proportion is not 8 to 9 — 
nor 16 to 18 — nor the thousand other possible propor- 
tions. It is the very odd proportion of 116 to 103.03, and 
in no place on this planet is it symbolized except in the 
ante-chamter of the great pyramid of Egypt, whose 



146 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

cubit, anm, amer, coffer, and grand chamber afterward 
appear in Hebrew mensuration. Again the diameter of 
a circle (360 degrees) in terms of seconds is 412.5; the 
weight of the said dollar; therefore its circumference 
is 1,296,000 — 'which is 1,000 times 1,269 — ^^^e cubic inches 
in a yard. Thus we see the most remarkable fact that not 
only is the dollar decimal, historic, mathematical, etc., but 
it is decimally connected with the linear system of the 
ancients and the moderns. 

Isaiah, 19-19: "In that day shall there be an altar 
to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar 
at the border thereof to the Lord." 

Isaiah, 19-20: "And it shall be for a sign and for a 
witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt, for 
they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, 
and he shall send them a Savior and and a defender, and 
he shall deliver them." 

Pyramid scholars tell us that the coffer in the grand 
chamber is exactly the same cubical capacity as the Ark 
of the Covenant of the Hebrews. It is the standard of 
wdiich the modern English quarter measure is just one- 
fourth. 

Solomon's molten sea was fifty times the size of the 
Ark; hence it was just the size of the grand chamber, and 
it is said by good authority that the great pyramid is the 
only building in Egypt that has 'been built by the sacred 
sta idard. There were just fifty clasps and loops to fasten 
the curtains upon the tent, or tabernacle, so that it might 
appear like one tabernacle. Thus they symbolized the 
fifty States that great Israel of the United States is going 
to have, that it may appear like one State. 

Now the weights and measurements of the coins of 
our fathers are found to correspond to those of the ante- 
chamber leading to the principal chamber of the pyramid, 
which symbolizes the overthrow of our present monetary 
system, and that we are entering a new era, one that is as 
much better than that of the present as the grand chamber 
outranks its entrance hall. It will be at the time of our 
transfiguration, which began in 1896, at the end of the 
symbolic six ages of 6,000 years. 

Mr. Casey, a pyramidical student of great applica- 



CHEOPS, THE GREATEST OF PYRAMIDS. 147 

tion, wrote to Prof. Smyth that if these passages in the 
great pyramid were chronological, they certainly would 
have some mark to indicate its own erection, and as the 
date of the erection had been almost positively fixed at 
the 'beginning of the precessional cycle in 2170 B. C, Mr. 
Casey added, according to the inch theory, that date must 
be three of four hundred inches down inside the top or 
mouth of the entrance passage. Prof. Smyth hastened to 
his notes, computed the distance, and there, engraven in 
the wall on either side was a line perpendicular to the 
floor of the passage, just 2,170 inches from the grand 
gallery. 

Hence the beginning of the grand gallery marks the 
birth of Christ, and the next feature after the birth of 
Christ is the forcible removal of the ramp stone to get 
to the well, just 33 inches up the grand gallery, where the 
well descends into the subterranean chamber, or the 
grave. 

The entrance angle of the great pyramid is such that 
in the year 2170 B. C. the then north star. Dragon, shone 
directly down its dreary length to the subterranean cham- 
ber, and at the same time, 2170 B. C, the axis star of the 
heavens, Alcyon, shone brightly over the apex. These 
things occur once in 25,826 years, known in astronomy 
as the precessional cycle, or the great year of the Pleiades. 

Now, who stretched the line upon the great pyramid, 
indicating by a cycle of 25,826 years, the time of its con- 
struction, and then with an immense stone sealed all of its 
upper passages and chambers, apparently as if those con- 
struc.ural mysteries were to remain sealed for all time? 
He that wrote the scriptures and left them veiled built the 
great pyramid and left it sealed, but he "built one to "be 
unsealed, and wrote the other to be unveiled. 

The length of the grand gallery on a graven line is 
1,878 inches; then comes the low entrance to the ante- 
cham'ber of the grand chamber, which symbolizes the be- 
ginning of tribulation, or the time of the Lord's prepara- 
tion, spoken of 'by Nahum, which all nations entered upon 
about the year 1878, symbolized by the termination of 
the grand gallery, 1,878 inches (years) from the birth of 
Christ to the upper end of the grand gallery. 



148 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

The base measure of the pyramid, 9,131.05 inches, 
divided by live*, is equal to 1,826.21 inches (years), which 
would about reach the 36-inch stone step that is set up. So 
that its front corner is 1,826.21 inches (years) from the 
beginning of the grand gallery, and from the beginning of 
the 36-inch step to the upper end of the grand gallery, it 
would be 34 inches (years) and would reach the year 1878. 

The 36-inch step represents the birth of the Son of 
'M-an 'that was born in 1826 (Home Missionary Society), 
that was formed in that year, which caused John Brown 
to descend upon Harper's Ferry ^T) years after, in 1859. 
Then his mission ended with the emancipation of slavery 
three years after (1862-3), making the 36-inch step (years) 
of its mission. 

Now we will add 34 years, the time since the emanci- 
pation on the first of 1863, and we have the year 1896, just 
70 years from the formation of the Home Missionary So- 
ciety in 1826. 

And ithe 70 inches (years) from 1826 would reach 18 
inches (years) from the end of the grand gallery over into 
the ante-cham'ber; also it would reach about the north and 
south center of the pyramid, which may be another indica- 
tion of the end of the six ages in 1896. Another indica- 
tion was when the fusionists threw fire into a golden 
window of our monetary temple, July 27th, 1896, which 
was symbolized iby the soldier who climbed upon the 
shoulders of another and hurled fire into a golden window 
of the old Jewish temple in the year 70, after the birth of 
Christ. Now our monetary temple was set on fire 70 
years after the birth of the Home Missionary Society, in 
1826, and y2 or 73 years after 1826, our monetary temple 
will be destroyed to its foundations, excepting three 
towers that will be left standing on account of their great 
strength and beauty. 

We are aware that all historians tell us that the old 
Jewish temple was destroyed 70 years after the birth of 
Christ, which is in error with syrnJbolic prophecy. Jeru- 
salem was besieged and the temple was set on fire in the 
year 70, but it did not suffer destruction until later, after 

*Five is a pyramid number, as the pyramid has five sides. 



CHEOPS, THE GREATEST OF PYRAMIDS. 149 

Christ, which symboHzes the destruction of our monetary 
temple in about 73 years after 1826. 

The Son of Man was born in the year 1826, and 33 
years after he came "Hke a thief at night" on the war 
clouds of heaven it was as the lightning cometh from the 
east and shineth unto the west (telegraphed to the west). 
Then from 1859 his ministry lasted three years, until ihe 
first of 1863, when millions of slaves weie set free. Re- 
m :mber that the Home Missionary Society was sym- 
bolized by Christ, and he said, "I come not to send peace, 
but a sword." 

The Home Missionary Society and Christ were both 
revolutionary reformers. 

As Christ was resurrected three days after death, a 
day is a year with the prophets, and it was three years 
after the death of the son of man (John Brown) until tne 
emancipation of the millions of slaves went into effect, so 
it may be three years from 1896 before the United States 
is resurrected. The United States as a just and free re- 
public died in 1896, as man was only to live 120 years. 

The grand chamber rests upon the 50th course of 
masonry, which may point to the birth of the son of man 
in 1826, 50 years after 1776; also the queen's cham- 
ber rests upon 'the 25t'h course of masonry, and that may 
point to the end of Joshua's rule (antitypical rule) 5 
years after 1776, in the year 1801, when the judiciary of the 
United States was reorganized and the judges of the Su- 
preme Court became five in number. 

The queen's chamber is inferior in finish; the walls 
are less perfect than the passages and chambers above; it 
has somewhat the appearance of a dungeon ; its horizontal 
passage and chamber walls exhibit a saline incrustation, 
as of nitre or salt. This condition does not pertain to the 
other passages and cham'bers of the great pyramid, 
although it is present in some of the smaller pyramids. 

The fact of the incrustations is singular, nor is the 
wonder less, as there are no incrustations found in the 
other passages and chambers. 

Is it possible that the alkalescency of the queen's 
chamber symbolizes the character of our Supreme Court. 

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150 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED 

entrance, there are five courses of masonry, including the 
great roof stone, pointing to the five supreme judges of 
the United States, after the reorganization of Joshua's rule 
in 1801, as he ruled 25 years from the death of Moses, who 
was compelled to die in 1776. 

Also there is an immense niche in the east wall of the 
queen's chamber, a correct and workmanlike excavation, 
which is composed of five sections of different widths, the 
smallest at the top, which points to the five associate jus- 
tices, while the walls, including the roof stones, are com- 
posed of eight courses of masonry, pointing to our eight 
associate justices of the Supreme Court that we had at the 
end of the six ages, in 1896; also the chamber is com- 
posed of limestone, pointing to the reorganization or de- 
struction of our Supreme Court soon after the end of the 
six ages. 

The entrance of the ante-chamber of the grand cham- 
ber, sometimes called king's chamber, is of limestone, but 
about thirteen inches (years) after entering the antecham- 
ber the floor stones are composed of granite, symbolizing 
a revolution, or a new order of things, that will begin soon 
after the end of the 6,000 years of the Old Testament crea- 
tion in 1896, as by pyramidical measurement of time, we 
will enter upon that part of granite floor of the ante- 
chamber in the 1,897th or 1,898th year of the literal crea- 
tion, as the creation of the Old Testament (which happened 
some time before Christ; it is not recorded when, as there 
is no correct chronology before Christ) was only a con- 
stitutional covenant from the Creator, describing by sym- 
bols and miracles the literal creation that began with the 
birth of Christ, in the year of sacred covenant history, 
4, 1 05X 1 ,896 — 6,000. 

As the chronology of the Scriptures has ever been 
veiled, our chronology may vary a few years, as we calcu- 
late from an infant source, that has never been used by 
any chronologer before, as it is founded by contracting 
and lapping over the allegorical ages before Christ onto 
the literal ages of the second Adam, which was Christ, and 
the beginning of the literal creation. 

When the chronicles of the kings of the earth 
(Europe), and the chronicles of the high priests of heaven 



CHEOPS, THE GREATEST OF PYRAMIDS. 15! 

(United States) are searched out, then they will be gath- 
ered at Armageddon (which means gospel), and all of the 
signs and seasons and the days and years since Christ was 
born, which was the beginning of the literal creation, will 
be searched out and carefully compared with the symbols 
and miracles of prophecy, all of which will be compiled 
into a new testament. Then the testimony in heaven 
(United States), which is the new Jerusalem, will be 
opened, and the Ark of his Covenant will be seen in his 
temple, which means, by the history of the United States, 
the ymbols of the Scriptures, which is the Ark of his 
Covenant, will be revealed and have a different meaning. 

The present theology will object to the prediction of 
things before they transpire, but Isaiah says. Chap. 48-5: 
"Therefore I have declared it to thee from of old; before 
it came to pass I shewed it thee, lest thou shouldest say. 
Mine idol hath done them." 

Their idol means their political party and their power 
of wealth. 

The democracy of God will be found cherished as it 
was of old by the Albigenses, Huguenots, Zolzburgers, 
Puritans, and as now by many humble organizations of 
to-day; not the democracy of a political party, but that 
which God gave to the children of Israel through Moses. 

ihe masses of men are far from being democratic; 
they are as servile to their political lords of to-day as they 
were to their feudal lords of the dark ages. The subtility 
of wealth controls the majority now as pageantry did then. 

Therefore, God gave them the great democratic legis- 
lators, Moses, Christ, Cromwell, Luther, Washington, 
Jefferson, Osawatomie Brown and Lincoln. 

What did all these democrats say by word and deed? 

Did Moses and Christ say or do better than those 
great leaders that came after them? They did only in 
quantity, as Moses and Christ originated the political plat- 
form for them who followed. 

Brown came on the war clouds of heaven precisely 
as Christ said he would come. See Brown's authority for 
attacking Harper's Ferry; hear what Washington says to 
Congress when he turns all of his power over to them. 

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152 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

the battlefield of Gettysburg, when he said: "A govern- 
ment of the people, by the people and for the people." 

Lincoln passed away, then the political caldron of 
heaven was corrupted to such an extent that it began to 
boil over, and its purification began at the end of the six 
symbolic ages, beginning in the year 1896x4104 — 6,000 
(Christ was born in the symbolic year of the creation, 
4104, which we believe to be astronomically correct, as he 
was 33 years of age when crucified), and we believe that 
his antitypical ministry began in about July, 1896, and will 
continue for three and a half years, with terrible efifect, 
and this United States of Israel, which is the heaven, will 
be resurrected and transfigured, all of which is promised in 
the Scriptures. Remember that Christ said he brought, a 
"sword," not "peace," for by revolution he is made prince 
of peace. 

The literal creation is the democracy created by God 
for man. That democracy began with Abraham, Isaac, 
Jacoib and Joseph, and then Moses and Aaron, all of whom 
were never subjects of any king, kingdom or prince. Yet 
they were sometimes captives or servants under them. 
Josephus calls Moses our great legislator. Moses was 
never a real subject of a king; he was only their captive or 
servant. 

If God had intended a royal or a kingly government 
for his people he would have made a king of Abraham 
while he was in Canaan, before his descendants went into 
Egypt, as Abraham was powerful enough to subdue sev- 
eral confederate kings with his own forces. They would 
have made a king of Moses, as the Israelites were all 
powerful in his time, and he could have been crowned 
their king at any time; but Moses was a democrat, not a 
democrat of a political party, but he was one according to 
the creation of God. Christ was the greatest democrat 
ever on the globe. Cromwell, at the head of the parlia- 
mentarians, was the next great representative of democ- 
racy after Christ — he was the antitypical Moses. 

The laws of Moses are the great democratic platform 
that the creation (of the six ages) since Christ is built upon. 
Josephus says that Moses happened to live 120 years. 

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CHEOPS, THE GREATEST OF PYRAMIDS. 153 

years, when the man child was born, the nation that was 
j^orn in a day; for, as soon as Zion travailed, her pains 
came (the seven years' war for independence). Josephus 
says that the life of man (nation) after Moses would be 
shortened and they would only live as lono^ as Moses hap- 
pend to live. 

Consequently our democracy of to-day will be trans- 
figured and turned over to God, which means a direct 
vote of all the people upon every statute of our country, 
as Moses always appealed to the many and not the few. 

From 1896 will begin the resurrection and the trans- 
figuration (there may 'be three and a half years in trans- 
figuring our democracy), which Christ symbolized when 
he was transfigured on the mount, when the disciples saw 
him conversing with Moses and Elias (remember that 
Elias went up to heaven (United States) in a whirlwind, 
which may symbolize the manner of our transfiguration). 
Paul says: "We will be changed in the twinkling of an 
eye." 

'Cromwell, Washington, John Brown, Luther, and 
Lincoln, all advocated the great democratic principles of 
Moses and Christ, not the democracy of a political party. 
They stood upon the great platform of God, which he gave 
to Moses. 

When Cromwell was made lord protector of the com- 
monwealth of England in 1653, it symbolized the birth of 
Aaron, and when three years later he refused the title of 
king, he symbolized Moses. 

Then, from that time, those parliamentarian principles 
of Mosaic democracy remained in bondage in England, 
the antitypical Egypt, for 80 years. (Moses was 80 years 
old when he left Egypt with the children of Israel). When, 
in 1736, the 300 emigrants (known as the grand embarka- 
tion) left England and landed in Georgia the same year, 
1736, under Oglethorpe, they wandered with their demo- 
cratic principles (the Ark of the Covenant) of Moses in 
the wilderness of" antitypical Israel of America, for 40 
years, until the death of Moses. In the year 1776, Moses 
being 120 years old when he died, then Joshua was seven 
days (years) taking Jericho (independence over mon- 
archy, gained by the United States in 1783.) 



Comments on the Floods of the Earth and Their 
Numbers. 

It is claimed by infidels in their arguments against 
the divinity of the scriptures that all nations, even bar- 
barous tribes, were found with traditions of a flood; even 
the Aztecs here in America had such a tradition, as have 
many wild tribes. 

Genesis, Chap. 7-1 1: "The same day were all the 
foundations of the great deep broken up, and the windows 
of heaven were opened and the rain was upon the earth." 
And when the work of destruction was finished, we are 
told that the foundations of the deep and the windows of 
heaven were stopped. This reminds us of the Chaldean 
tradition, and the enormous amount of water issuing from 
the earth, and the Armenian tradition. The Hindoo tradi- 
tion of the flood speaks of the marine god, Hayagryva, who 
dwelt in the abyss and produced the cataclysm. This is 
doubt'less the archangel of the abyss spoken of in the 
Chaldean tradition. We have the following reference to 
the flood in Plato's unfinished description of Atalantis: 
"Many great deluges have taken place during the nine 
thousand years, for that is the number of years that have 
elapsed since the time of which I am speaking; and in all 
the ages and changes of things there has never been any 
settlement of the earth flowing down from the mountains, 
as in other places, which is worth speaking of; it has 
always been carried round in a circle and disappeared in 
the depth below." 

In the Chaldean legend the god "Ea" ordered Khas- 
iseitra to inscribe the divine learning and the principles 
of all sciences on tables of terra cotta and bury them be- 
fore the deluge in the city of the sun at Sippara. 

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COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 155 

The Hindoo Bhavagata Purana tells us that the fish 
god who warned Satyravata of the coming of the flood 
directed him to place the sacred scriptures in a safe place, 
"in order to preserve them from Hayagriva, a marine 
horse dwelling in the abyss." A succession of destruc- 
tions is referred to in the Greek legends where a deluge 
of Ogyges, "the most ancient of the kings of Boeatia or 
Attica, a quite mythical person, lost in the ages of night," 
preceded that of Deucalion. 

The following is from' Baldwin's "Ancient America," 
page 176: "The land was shaken by frightful earth- 
quakes, and the waves of the sea combined with volcanic 
fires to overwhelm and engulf it. Each convulsion swept 
away portions of the land, until the whole disappeared, 
leaving the line of the coast as it now is. Most of the in- 
habitants, overtaken in their regular employment, were 
destroyed; but some escaped in ships and some fled for 
safety to the tops of high mountains, or to portions of the 
land which for a time escaped immediate destruction." 
There is in the Egyptian legends a passage of Manetho in 
which Thoth (or Hermes Trismegistus), before the de- 
luge inscribed on tablets in hieroglyphics, or sacred char- 
acters, the principles of all knowledge. After the deluge 
the second Thoth translated the contents of these stela or 
tablets into the vulsrar tong-ue. 



The Deluge Since Fourteen Hundred and Twenty-Nine. 

Joan of Arc claimed a divine mission to deliver 
France from the English and to crown Charles VH. king 
of that country. She raised the siege of Orleans and ful- 
filled her mission when she crowned Charles at Reims, in 
1429. 

Noah built the Ark 300 cubits in length. These cubits 
mean years. Three hundred added to 1,429 brings us to 
1729. After the waters were decreased Noah sent out a 
raven. (Josephus does not state when this raven was sent 
forth, nor how long it was gone. No period seems to 
belong to it.) After seven days he sent out a dove, to 
know the state of the ground, which came back covered 
with mud, and was taken into the Ark. Seven davs added 



156 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

to 1,729 brings us to 1736, when the children of the anti- 
typical Israel landed in Savannah, Georgia, in the Colonial 
States of America, covered with mud (slurs, derisive 
names, etc). This rain of forty days (years) typifies the 
forty years wandering in the wilderness, and carries us ^o 
1776. Josephus calls it the entire forty days of rain. Thit 
was called the forty years' rain upon earth — allowing th- 
children of Israel to maintain their colonial government 
forty years in America. 

After seven days (years) Noah sent out another dove, 
and it returned with an olive leaf plucked off. Seven years 
added to 1776 carried us to 1783, when peace was pro- 
claimed between the United State^ and England. This 
peace was symbolized by the olive branch plucked off. 
The Ark that floated on the great flood on the earth was 
typified by the Ar'k that was built by Moses in the wilder- 
ness, according to directions given by the creator. It was 
raised up above the earth by the flood of persecution in 
Europe and floated over to Savannah, Georgia, in the year 
1736. It was known, when it left England, as the Grand 
Embarkation. 

Antiquities, Book L, Chap. 3-6: "Now all the 
writers of the barbarian histories make mention of this 
flood, and of this Ark; among whom is Berossus, the 
Chaldean. For when he was describing the circumstances 
of the flood he goes on thus: 'It is said there is still some 
parts of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cor- 
dyaeans ; and that some people carry off pieces of bitumen, 
which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets, for the 
averting of mischiefs.' Hieronymus, the Egyptian, also, 
who wrote the Phoenician antiquities and Mnaseas, and a 
great many more, make mention of the same. Nay, 
Nicholas of Damascus, in his ninety-sixth book, hath a 
particular relation about them, where he speaks thus: 
"There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, 
called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled 
at the time of the deluge were saved; and that one who 
was carried in an Ark came on shore on top of it; and 
that the remains of the timber were a great while pre- 
served. This might be the man about whom Moses, t4ie 
Legislator of the Jews, wTOte." 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 157 

This bitumen carried off from the Ark, that rested in 
Armenia, Turkey, by some people (nations) will apply to 
the Eastern question, which is stirred up from time to 
time, and undoubtedly averts mischief (war) in Europe, by 
creating fear among the nations. 



The Deluge that Will End On the Earth {In Europe.) 

In the year 1095, the city of Jerusalem was taken 
by the first crusaders from the Saracens. After the 
crusaders had established the kingdom of Jerusalem it 
rained forty days (years), until 1135. From this time, 
therefore, the prosperity of the Christian states began to 
decline in the East. The Moslems scattered through the 
country took advantage of every new dispute among the 
concjuerors to harass them with a desultory warfare. 
The causes of the flood were increasing for forty years. 
So the flood continued from 1135 to 1736, which would 
be in the 601 st year of Noah's life, mentioned in Genesis, 
Chap. 8-13, as follows: "And it came to pass in the six 
hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of 
the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; 
and Noah removed the covering of the Ark, and, behold, 
the face of the ground was dried." The Ark had floated 
over to its destination with the children of Israel, to Sav- 
annah, Georgia, in the Colonial States, in the year 1736. 

Genesis, Chap. 7-20: "Fifteen cubits upward did the 
waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." The 
nations were deeply involved in war. From 1736 war 
seemed to increase in Europe, until all Europe was in- 
volved at about the end of fifteen years. This brings us 
to the year 1751. 

Genesis, Chap. 7-23: "And every living thing was 
destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both 
man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of heaven; 
and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only 
was left, and they that were with him in the Ark." What 
is meant by every living thing being destroyed that was 
on the face of the ground was that everything righteous 
and everything pertaining to the Mosaic democracy, and 
all constitutional liberty, sgmed to be wiped out of Europe. 



IS8 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

As everything that was left ahve was with Noah in the 
Ark, meaning all that was left was bound up wjth the Ark 
(Covenant), alliances of the nations of the earth (Europe). 

That is, all the constitutional democratic freedom 
that there was was in the Ark at Savannah, Georgia, tne 
anttypical Israelites. 

Genesis, Chap. 7-24: "And the waters prevailed upon 
the earth a hundred and fifty days" (years). This state of 
afifairs will constitutionally remain in Europe for 150 
years, or until 1901 ; and we believe that in 1901 the second 
resurrection will take place, which is called by the prophets 
the second resurrection, or the resurrection of the dead. 
This resurrection will be entirely a political revolution for 
reform, and not spiritual, as some have heretofore sup- 
posed. This is what is meant in Daniel, Chap. 12, 1-2: 
"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince 
which standeth for the children of thy people; and there 
shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there 
was a nation, even to that same time; and at that time thy 
people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found 
written in the book." 

•2. "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the 
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to 
shame and everlasting contempt." At that resurrection 
those are to rise that sleep in the dust of the earth (Europe). 

Michael, stand up. Michael is the archangel, sym- 
liolizing the United States; as angels mean agencies in 
every instance, and the United States is here to assume 
an agency greater than usual. At this time of greatest 
trouble, the United States is to assume an authority over 
the nations greater than every before. Of this time A 
greatest trouble in Europe, Esdras says, in Chap. 15-44: 
"Then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven." 
That means that many from Europe will in that time flee 
to the United States with their valuables for protection. 
Which standeth for the children of thy people, meaning 
that his people are the people of the United States. "Thy 
people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found 
written in the book." That means those who live in the 
United States. 

When Michael stands up means that the United 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 159 

States will be compelled by political circumstances to 
assume more authority among the nations than hereto- 
fore. That is what is meant by Michael standing up. 
Whatism'eantbymany awakening that sleep in the dust of 
the earth is the resurrection of those dead and iniquitous 
nations, symfcolized by being asleep. The dust of the 
earth symibolizes the dregs of Europe. Some to everlast- 
ing life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 
Some of the nations of the world will adopt a righteous 
constitution and some will not. This resurrection is polit- 
ical and not spiritual, and national and not individual, be- 
cause individuals are not mentioned in the prophecies, 
only as symbols of something greater. 



The Symbolized Account of the Flood on the Earth as 

Given by Josephus. 
Concertiing the Flood ^ and After What Manner Noah 
Was Saved in the Ark with His Kindred^ and After- 
wards Dwelt in the Plain of Shinar. 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-1 : "Now this posterity 
of Seth continued to esteem God as the Lord of the 
universe, and to have an entire regard to virtue for seven 
generations; -but in the process of time they were 
perverted, and forsook the practices of their fore- 
fathers; and did neither pay those honors to God 
which were appointed them, nor had they any con- 
cern to do justice towards men; but for what degree 
of zeal they had formerly shown for virtue, they now 
showed by their actions a double degree of wickedness, 
whereby they made God to be their enemy. For many 
angels O'f God accompanied with women, and begat sons 
that proved unjust and despisers of all that was good, on 
account of the confidence they had in their own strength; 
for the tradition is that these men did what resembled 
the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants. But 
Noah was very uneasy at what they did; and, being dis- 
pleased at their conduct, pursuaded them to change their 
dispositions and their actions for the better, but seing 
they did not yield to him but were slaves to their wicked 
pleasures, he was afraid they would kill him, together 



i6o ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

with his wife and children, and those they had married; 
so he departed out of that land." The posterity of Seth 
failed to regard the Lord after the seventh generation. 

Adam lived 130 years and begat Seth. 

Seth lived 105 years and begat Enos. 

Enos lived 90 years and begat Cainan. 

Cainan lived 70 years and begat Mahalaleel. 

Mahalaleel lived • 65 years and begat Jared. 

Jared lived 162 years and begat Enoch. 

Enoch lived 65 years and begat Methuselah. 

Methuselah lived .... 187 years and begat Lamech. 
Lamech lived 182 years and begat Noah. 



1,056 

The number of years from the creation of the world 
(Europe) to the seventh generation, after Seth, is 1056, 
when the people showed by their actions a greater degree 
of wickedness and relied on their own strength. Now, as 
the creation was all symbols, and Adam was a symbol of 
Christ, also the first nation married to the church, con- 
sequently, when the new era commenced Christ sym- 
bolized the beginning of that creation. Hence, we count 
the years from Adam, as from Christ. Josephus, by in- 
tentionally overestimating the ages' of six of the patriarchs, 
brings Noah's birth 600 years too late. The very lan- 
guage of Josephus shows that the story of the flood was 
symbolic. The angels (agencies) of God, accompanying 
with women (churches), brought forth wickedness. 
Angels here symbolize agencies, whether as nations or 
political parties; but they seldom symbolize a church, as a 
church is usually symbolized by a woman. As the tree 
foi'bidden to Adam and Eve symbolized .the marriage of 
church and state, that is to be divorced, as the Lord was 
displeased and pronounced a curse upon Adam and Eve 
(church and state) as soon as they were married. 

Antiquities. Book L, Chap. 3-2: "Now God loved 
this man for his righteousness. Yet he not only con- 
demned those men for their wickedness, but determined to 
destroy the whole race of mankind, and to make another 
race that should be pure from wickedness, and cutting 
short their lives, and making their years not so many as 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. i6i 

they formerly lived, but one hundred and twenty only, he 
turned the dry land into sea, and thus were all these men 
destroyed; but Noah alone was saved; for God suggested 
to him the following contrivance and way of escape: That 
he should make an Ark of four stories high, three hundred 
cubits long, fifty cubits broad, and thirty cubits high. Ac- 
cordingly he entered into that Ark, and his wife and sons 
and their wives, and put into it not only other provisions 
to support their wants there but also sent in with the rest 
all sorts of living creatures, the male and his female, for 
the preservation of their kinds, and others of them by 
sevens. Now this Ark had firm walls, and a roof, and 
was braced with cross beams, so that it could not be any 
way drowned or overborne by the violence of the water. 
And thus was Noah, with his family, preserved. Now he 
was the tenth from Adam, as being the son of Lamech, 
whose father was Methuselah; he was the son of Enoch, 
the son of Jared ; and Jared was the son of Mahalaleel, who, 
with many of his sisters, were the children of Cainan, the 
son of Enos. Now Enos was the son of Seth, the son of 
Adam." After their wickedness God determined to de- 
stroy all mankind, and to make another race, and to cut 
short their years, making their lives 120 years only. 

Josephus says in Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 6-5: 
"For the life of man was already by degrees diminished, 
and became shorter than before, till the birth of Moses; 
after whom the term of human life was one hundred and 
twenty years, God determining it to the length that Moses 
happened to live." Moses lived 120 years, and the man 
after Moses symbolizes the United States, which will live 
120 years, and then will come what is called the first resur- 
rection, the resurrection of the living, which will begin 
in 1896-7. 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-3: "This calamity 
happened in the sixth hundredth year of Noah's govern- 
ment (age), in the second month, called by the Mac- 
edonians Dius, but by the Hebrews Marhesven; for so did 
they order their year in Egypt. But Moses appointed that 
Nisan, which is the same with Xanthicus, should be the 
first month for their festivals, because he brought them 
out of Egypt in that month. So that this month began 



i62 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

the year as to all the solemnities they observed to the 
honor of God, although he preserved the original order 
of the months as to selling and buying, and other ordinary 
affairs. Now, he say, that this flood began on the twenty- 
seventh (seventeenth) day of the forementioned month; 
and this was two thousand six hundred and fifty-six (one 
thousand five hundred and fifty-six) years from Adam, the 
first man; and the time is written down in our sacred 
books, those who then lived having noted down with great 
accuracy both the births and the deaths of illustrious 
men." 

Josephus says this calamity (the flood) happened in 
the 6ooth year of Noah's government (age). Six hundred 
years added to 1056 carries us to the year 1656 A. D. 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-4: "For indeed Seth 
was born when Adam was in his two hundred and thir- 
tieth year, who lived nine hundred and thirty years. Seth 
begat Enoch in his two hundred and fifth year; who, when 
he had lived nine hundred and twelve years, delivered the 
government to Cainan, his son, whom he had at his hun- 
dred and ninetieth year. He lived nine hundred and five 
years. 'Cainan, when he had lived nine hundred and ten 
years, and his son Maha'laleel, who was born in his hundred 
and seventieth year. This Mahalaleel, having lived eight 
hundred and ninety-five years, died, leaving his son Jared, 
whom he begat when he was at his hundred and sixty- 
fifth year. He lived nine hundred and sixty-two years; 
and then his son Enoch succeeded him, who was born 
when his father was one hundred and sixty-two years old. 
Now he, when he had lived three hundred and sixty-five 
years, departed, and went to God; whence it is that they 
have not written down his death. Now Methuselah, the 
son of Enoch, who was born to him when he was one hun- 
dred and sixty-five years old, had Lamech for his son, 
when he was one hundred and eighty-seven years of age; 
to whom he delivered the government, when he had re- 
tained it nine hundred and sixty-nine years. Now 
Lamech, when he had governed seven hundred and sev- 
enty-seven years, appointed Noah, his son, to be ruler of 
the people, who was born to Lamech when he was one 
hundred and eighty-two years old, and retained the gov- 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS, 163 

ernment nine hundred and fifty years. These years col- 
lected together make up the sum before set down. But 
let no one inquire into the deaths of these men; for they 
extended their lives all along, together with their children 
and grandchildren; but let them have regard to their 
births only." 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-5: "When God gave 
the signal it began to rain, the water poured down forty 
entire days, till it became fifteen cubits higher than the 
earth; which was the reason why there were no greater 
number preserved, since they had no place to fly to. When 
the rain ceased, the water did but just begin to abate after 
one hundred and fifty days; that is, on the seventeenth day 
of the seventh month, it then ceased to subside for a little 
while. After this the Ark rested on the top of a certain 
mountain in Armenia, which, when Noah understood, he 
opened it, and seeing a small piece of land about it, he con- 
tniued quiet and conceived some cheerful hopes of deliv- 
erance. But a few days afterward, when the water was 
decreased to a greater degree, he sent a raven, as de- 
sirous to learn whether any O'ther part of the earth were 
left dry by the water, and whether he might go out of the 
Ark with safety; but the raven returned not. And after 
seven days he sent out a dove to know the state of the 
ground, which came back covered with mud, and bring- 
ing an olive branch. Hereby Noah learned that the earth 
was become clear of the flood. So after he had stayed 
seven more days he sent the living creatures out of the 
Ark; and both he and his family went out, when he also 
sacrificed to God, and feasted with his companions. How- 
ever, the Armenians call this place * * * ^-j^g place of 
Descent ; for the Ark, being saved in that place, its remains 
are showed there by the inhabitants to this day." God 
gave the signal and it began to rain; the water poured 
down forty entire days, till it became fifteen cubits higher 
than the earth. In 1656, about the time of the Crom- 
wellian Parliaments it rained forty entire days (years), to 
1696. At this time there was war on earth (Europe), be- 
tween France, assisted by Turkey on one side, and most of 
the great powers of Europe on the other. This is the flood 
that was on the earth. 



l64 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

"Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail. Fif- 
teen cubits here symtoolizes fifteen years the- contentions 
in the earth (Europe) prevailed upward, or became more 
severe. This would be from 1696 to 171 1, during which 
time there was continual and increasing war in Europe. 
Western Europe wa^ involved in the wars of Louis XIV. 
with the allied forces under William of Orange; and this 
was no sooner over than the war of the Spanish succes- 
sion began, which was one of the greatest Europe had ever 
seen. In the meantime, Charles XII. of Sweden was car- 
rying on his wonderful campaigns against Peter the Great 
of Russia. From about 1696 England's national debt 
began. It rose to fourteen million pounds in 1702, and 
with few exceptions has been increasing ever since until 
it has exceeded seven hundred million pounds. The na- 
tional debt originated by borrowing from rich London 
merchants, who were incorporated by William III. into 
the Bank of England. This was the origin of what is now 
the largest financial institution in the world. As the na- 
tional de^bts have grown, so has the banking system 
ounded on them, and with the banks has grown the money 
power, controlling through them all branches of industry. 

The Eastern question, the armed neutrality and the 
banking system, the money power of the world, that was 
symbolized 'by the flood, the Ark (alliances) rested, or 
came to a standstill in Turkey. They are all symbolized 
by the flood, for they had all flooded the earth from that 
time with their evil influences. Why the banking system 
and the great national indebtedness rests there is because 
there is where the insolvency of nations will begin, or has 
already; and the Ark (Covenant), which is the alliances of 
the nations of Europe, concerning Cain, the son of Ham, 
the vagabond, who symbolizes the Turks of to-day, and 
at present is known as the Eastern question, which has 
caused and will maintain the calm before the storm which 
will burst, when the nations of Europe smite Cain. 

The resting of the Ark in Armenia (Turkey) sym- 
bolized the calm before the storm, caused by the Eastern 
question, or the armed neutrality of the European nations, 
during the time the Turks were making inroads in Europe. 
In 1683, Vienna was besieged by 200,000 Turks and Tar- 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 165 

tars, but was relieved by John Sobieski, King of Poland. 
Until 1698, and also at the renewal of the war, in 17 16, 
the house of Austria, well served all that time by zealous 
and successful generals, again defeated the Ottomans. In 
July, 171 1, the Russian army was surrounded by a su- 
perior force, and in four days lost 16,000 men. Thus did 
the waters prevail upward fifteen cubits (years) above the 
earth. The water poured down forty entire days, till it 
became fifteen cubits higher than the earth, which was 
the reason why there was no greater number preserved, 
since there was no place to fly to. This symbol (the flood) 
is national and not individual. It was over the whole 
earth, and no nation could escape, because there was no 
place to which a nation could fly to, 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-5: "When the rain 
ceased, the water did but just begin to abate after one hun- 
dred and fifty days; that is, on the sevententh day of the 
seventh month, it then ceasing to subside for a little while." 

This 150 days (years) takes us from 171 1 to 1861. 
After this the Ark rested on the top of a certain mountain 
in Armenia, which, when Noah understood, he opened it 
and seeing a small piece of land about it, he continued 
quiet, and conceived some cheerful hopes of deliverance. 
Land here means a prospect of benefit to accrue to the 
Christians of Turkey. 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-5: "But a few days 
afterward, when the water was decreased to a greater 
degree, he sent out a raven, as desirous to learn whether 
any other part of the earth were left dry by the water, and 
whether he might go out of the Ark with safety; but the 
raven returned not." This raven was some intercession 
for the Christians which was not successful. 

After 1861 the Christians of Armenia had peace for a 
while. This is what is meant by the Ark resting in Ar- 
menia. After seven days Noah sent out a dove to know 
the state of the ground, which came back covered with 
mud, and bringing an olive branch. Hereby Noah learned 
that the earth was clear of the flood. This seven days 
(years) takes us from 1861 to 1868. in which year the prop- 
erty of the Mosques in Turkey was taken for secular pur- 



i66 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

poses. This time saw the overturning of several govern- 
ments of the earth. 

Isabelle, Queen of Spain, v^as deposed in 1868; the 
Khedive of Egypt was deposed in 1869, and Louis Na- 
poleon, Emperor of France, was deposed in 1870, after 
which France became a republic. 

And he stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth 
the dove, which returned not again unto him any more. 
These other seven days (years) takes us to 1875. I^ that 
year Austrian soldiers occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina, 
in Turkish territory, and a war with Turkey ensued. This 
is the going out of the dove that never returned. 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-7: "But as for Noah, 
he was afraid, since God had determined to destroy man- 
kind (nations), lest he should drown the earth every year; 
so he offered burnt offerings and besought God that na- 
ture might hereafter go on in its former orderly course, 
and that he would not 'bring on so great a judgment any 
more, by which the whole race of creatures might be in 
danger of destruction; but that, having now punished 
the wicked, he would of his goodness spare the remainder, 
and such as he had hitherto judged fit to be delivered from 
so severe a calamity; for that otherwise these last must be 
more miserable than the first, and that they must be con- 
demned to a worse condition than the others, unless they 
be suffered to escape entirely; that is, if they be reserved 
for another deluge, while they must 'be afflicted with the 
terror and the sight of the first deluge, and must also be 
destroyed by a second. He also entreated God to accept of 
his sacrifice, and to grant that the earth might never again 
undergo the like effects of his wrath; that men might be 
permitted to go on cheerfully in cultivating the same; to 
'build cities and live happily in them ; and that they might 
•not be deprived of any of those good things which they 
enjoyed before the flood; but might attain to the like length 
of days, an old age, which the ancient people had arrived 
at before." 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-8: "When Noah had 
made these supplications, God, who loved the man for his 
righteousness, granted entire success to his prayers; and 
said that it was not he who brought the destruction on the 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 167 

polluted world (Europe), 'but that they underwent that 
vengeance on account of their own wickedness; and that 
he had not brought men into the world, if he had himself 
determined to destroy them, it being an instance of greater 
wisdom not to have granted them life at all than, after it 
was granted, to procure their destruction; but the injuries, 
said he, they offered to my holiness and virtue forced me 
to bring this punishment upon them. But I will leave off 
for the time to come to require such punishments, the 
effects of so great wrath, for their future wicked actions, 
and especially on account of thy prayers. But if I shall 
at any time send tempests of rain, in an extraordinary 
manner, be not affrighted at the largeness of the showers, 
for the water shall no more overspread the earth. How- 
ever, I require you to abstain from shedding the blood. of 
men, and to keep yourselves pure from murder, and to 
punish those that commit any such thing. I permit you 
to make use of all the other living creatures at your pleas- 
ure, and as your appetites lead you; for I have made you 
lords of them all, but of those that walk on the land, and 
those that swim in the waters, and of those that fly in the 
regions of the air on high, excepting their blood, for 
therein is the life. But I will give you a sign that I have 
left off my anger, by my bow (whereby is meant the rain- 
bow, for they determined that the rainbow was the bow of 
God). And when God had said and promised thus, he 
went away." 

Antiquities, Book I., Chap. 3-9: "Now when Noah 
had lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood, and 
all that time happily, he died, having lived the number 
of nine hundred and fifty years. But let no one upon 
comparing the lives of the ancients with our lives, and 
with the few years which we now live, nor think that what 
we have said of them is false, or make the shortness of o-ur 
lives at present an argument, that neither did they attain 
to so long a duration of life, for those ancients were be- 
loved of God, and (lately) made by God himself; and be- 
cause their flood was then fitter for the prolongation of 
life, might well live so great a number of years; and be- 
sides, God afforded them a longer time of life on account 
of their virtue, and the good use they made ol it in astron- 



i68 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

omical and g-eometrical discoveries, which would not have 
afforded the time for foretelHng (the periods of the stars) 
unless they had lived six hundred years; for the great 
year is completed in that interval. Now, I have for wit- 
nesses to what I have said, all those that have written an- 
tiquities, both among the Greeks and barbarians; for even 
Manetho, who wrote the Egyptian history, and Berossus, 
who collected the Chaldean monuments, and Mochus and 
Hestiaeus, and 'besides these, Hieronymus, the Egyptian, 
and those that composed the Phenician history, agree to 
what I here say. Hesiod also, and Hecataeus, and Hel- 
lanicus, and Acusilaus; and, besides these, Ephorus and 
Nicolaus relate that the ancients lived a thousand years. 
But as to these matters, let every one look upon them as 
they think fit." 

Genesis, Chap. 9, 20-21 : "And Noah began to be an 
husbandman, and planted a vineyard, and he drank of the 
wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his 
tent," The drunkenness of Noah is the helpfulness of the 
Christians in the Turkish empire, principally in Armenia, 
wdiere the Ark rested. 

Genesis, Chap. 9-22: "And Ham, the father of 
Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two 
brethren without." This nakedness that Ham saw was 
the horrible massacres of the Christians by the Turks 
(Ham is the Turks, and his two brethren are the rest of 
Europe). 

Genesis, Chap. 9-23: "And Shem and Japheth took 
a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went 
backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and 
their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's 
nakedness." This means that Shem and Japheth (all 
Europe, except Turkey) will go back of their sentiments, 
and by forming an alliance, keep their faces from the 
horrible scenes in Armenia (the drunkenness of Noah). 
This is the position of the powers of Europe on the Ar- 
menian question at this time — 1896. 

This alliance of the European powers is the garment 
on the shoulders of Shem and Japheth that prevents their 
seeing the nakedness of Noah (the sufferings of the Ar- 
menian Christians). 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 169 

Genesis, Chap. 9, 24-25 : "And Noah awoke from his 
wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him. 
And he said. Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall 
he be unto his brethren." The Turke (the sons of Canaan, 
the son of Ham) shall be divided and be absorbed by the 
rest of the nations of Europe (Shem and Japheth). 

Genesis, Chap. 9, 26-27: "And he said. Blessed be 
the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his ser- 
vant." "God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the 
tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his his servant." He 
shall enlarge Japheth; that is, he shall enlarge the other 
nations of Europe by giving them parts of Turkey. And 
Canaan shall be his servant; meaning that Turkey will be 
reduced to a condition of servitude, or subjugated. 
Japheth is the northern nations of Europe ; and by dwel- 
ling in the tents of Shem is meant to occupy the territory 
of Shem (the southern nations of Europe). Those na- 
tions in the north will rule over those of the south. 
Egypt, Turkey, Assyria, and the south will be governed 
by the north. The tenth chapter of Genesis gives an 
account of the posterity of Noah after the flood. 

The children of Jaoheth settled in dififerent parts of 
the country as follows: Gomer settled north of the Black 
Sea; Mesheck, between the Black and Caspian Seas; Ash- 
kenaz, in Asia Minor; Tiras, in Turkey in Europe; Tubal, 
on the north shore of the Black Sea; Togarmah, near 
Mount Ararat, in Armenia. Of the children of Ham, 
Canaan settled in the land of Canaan, in Palestine; 
Mizraim, in Egypt; and Dedam, on the shores of the Per- 
sian Gulf. Of the children of Shem, Lud settled on the 
shores of the Mediterranean, in Egypt; Ophir, in the 
southern part of Arabia; Elam, between the Caspian Sea 
and the Persian Gulf; Uz, east of Palestine; and Ashur, in 
Mesopotamia. 

The six days of creation was a symbolic creation, and 
the flood was a symbolic flood, a part of which is yet to be 
enacted. The tradition of a flood is given in the records 
of many nations; and this is urged by many to disprove 
the truthfulness of the story as told in the Bible. These 
traditions exist almost universally, and that they do exist 
proves the genuiness of Josephus' writings, as these tradi- 



I70 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

tions were ordained to coincide with Josephus when his 
symbolic histories would be found to be divine. 

There are many reasons to make one believe that this 
globe was inhabited by man before the time spoken of in 
■the Bible as the creation of the world, nearly 6,000 years 
ago. Following, we give a few of the reasons: 

Among the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, on the 
California side, the streams which head in these moun- 
tains all run westerly to the San Joaquin and Sacramento 
Rivers. They have cut out deep gorges in their passages 
through the foothills. These gorges show the cross sec- 
tions of the bed of an im'mense ancient river, which at 
some time must have run from north to south, high up 
among the foothills. The great river is aio longer there, 
the water having been turned in some other direction by 
some upheaval, but the valley and the river channel are 
filled up hundreds of feet deep by gravels, clays, etc., 
which in many places are roofed over by a great cap of 
lava, also hundreds of feet thick. Along the edges of the 
'banks of gravel, forming the bed of the river, are found 
the remains of a race of creatures who used fire and made 
pottery and otherwise behaved like men; and among the 
gravel can be found the greatest quantity of gold that 
'California has yet produced. The whole formation is 
called the Blue Lead, and the gold in the gravel is wash 
gold, derived from some gold region which has not yet 
been discovered. 

The Chaldean Zodiacal Cycles, 

M. Oppert read an essay at the Brussels congress to 
show, from the astronomical observations of the Egyp- 
tians and Assyrians, that 11,542 years before our era a 
people existed on the earth at such a stage of civilization 
as to be able to take note of astronomical phenomena, and 
to calculate with considerable accuracy the length of the 
year. The Egyptians, says he, calculated by cycles of 
1,460 years (zodiacal cycles, as they were called). Their 
year consisted of 365 days, which caused them to lose one 
day in every four solar years, and, consequently, they 
would attain their original starting point again, only after 
1,460 years (365x4). Therefore, the Zodiacal cycle, end- 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 171 

ing in the year 139 of our era, commenced in the- year 
1322 B. C. On the other hand, the Assyrian cycle was 
1,805 years, or 22,^2^ lunations. An Assyrian cycle began 
712 B. C. The Chaldeans state that between the deluge 
and their first history there was a period of 39,180 years. 
Now, what means this number? It stands for twelve 
Egyptian Zodiacal cycles, plus twelve Assyrian lunar 
cycles. 

12x1,460 — 17,520) 

)— 39,180. 
12x1,805 — 21,660) 
These two modes of calculating time are in agree- 
ment with each other, and were known simultaneously to 
one people, the Chaldeans. Let us now build up the 
series of both cycles, starting from our era, and the result 
will be as follows: 

Zodical Cycle. Lunar Cycle. 

1,460 1,805 

1,322 712 



2,782 2,517 

4,242 4,322 

5,702 6,127 

7,162 7,932 

8,622 9,737 

10,082 1 1,542 

11,542 

At the year 11 542 B. C. the two cycles came together, 
and consequently they had on that year their common 
origin in one and the same astronomical observation. 

T'/ic Easter Island. 

Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean, is a towering 
peak of black granite standing out of water, many hun- 
dreds of miles away from any other land. Every square 
foot of the peak above water is carved into most grotesque 
forms, and there many idols, thirty feet high; facades of 
temples, altars, etc., and the carvings extend down under 
the surface of the sea as deep as can be seen with the aid 
of the water glass through the clear water. This peak is 
thousfht to have been the central religfious shrine of the 



172 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

people inhabiting a great continent which was engulfed in 
prehistoric times. There are indications that there was 
a similar collapse of a continent in the Atlantic Ocean also. 



So9ne of the Deluge Legends of America. 

It is not a little remarkable that we find in America 
traditions of the deluge coming infinitely nearer to that 
of the Bible and the 'Chaldean record than among any 
people of the globe. The most important among the 
American traditions are the Mexican, for they appear to 
have been definitely fixed by symbolic mnemonic paint- 
ings before any contact with Europeans. According to 
these documents, the Noah of the Mexican cataclysm was 
Coxcox, called by certain peoples Teocipactli or Tezpi. 
He had saved himself, together with his wife Xochi- 
quetzal, in a 'bark, or, according to other traditions, on a 
raft made of cypress-wood. Paintings retracing the del- 
uge of Coxcox have been discovered among the Aztecs, 
Miztecs, Zapotecs, Tlascaltecs, and Mechoacaneses. The 
tradition of the latter is still more strikingly in conformity 
with the story as we have it in Genesis, and in Chaldean 
sources. It tells how Tezpi embarked in a spacious vessel 
with his wife, his children, and several animals, and grain, 
whose preservation was essential to the subsistance of the 
human race. When the great god Tezcatlipoca decreed 
that the waters should retire, Tezpi sent a vulture from 
the bark. The bird, feeding on the carcasses with which 
the earth was laden, did not return. Tezpi sent out other 
birds, of which the humming-bird only came back, with 
a leafy branch in its beak. Then Tezpi, seeing that the 
country began to vegetate, left his bark on the mountain 
of Colhuacan. 



The Story of the Deluge as Told in the Popul Vuh, the 
Sacred Book of the Central Americans. 

Then the waters were agitated by the will of the heart 
of heaven (Hurakan), and a great inundation came upon 
the heads of these creatures. They were engulfed, and a 
resinous thickness descended from heaven; the face of the 
arth was obscured, and a heavy, darkening rain com- 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 173 

menced (rain by day and rain by night). There was heard 
a great noise above their heads, as if produced by fire. 
Then were men seen running, pushing, each other, filled 
with despair; they wished to climb upon their houses, 
tumbling down, fell to the ground; they wished to climb 
upon the trees, and the trees shook them off; they wished 
to enter into the grottoes, or caves, but they closed them- 
selves before them. Water and fire contributed to the 
universal ruin at the time of the last great cataclysm which 
preceded the fourth creation. Observe the similarities 
here to the Chaldean legend. There is the same graphic 
description of a terrible event. The black cloud is referred 
to in both instances; also the dreadful noises, the rushing 
water, the earthquake rocking the trees, overthrowing the 
houses and crushing even the mountain caverns; the men 
running and pushing each other, filled with despair, says 
the Popul Vuh; the brother no longer saw his brother, 
says the Assyrian legend. We find in Spanish the word 
huracan; in Portuguese, furacan; in French, ouragan; in 
German, Danish and Swedish, orcan — all of them signify- 
ing a storm; while in Latin furo, or furio, means to rage. 
And are not the old Swedish hurra, to be driven along; 
our own word hurried; the Icelandic word hurra, to be 
rattled over frozen ground, all derived from the same root 
from which the God of the abyss, Hurakan, obtained his 
name. 



The Toltec Legend of the Flood. 

It is found in the histories of the Toltecs that this age 
and the first world, as they call it, lasted 1,716 years; that 
men were destroyed by tremendous rains and lightning 
from the sky, and even all the land, without the excep- 
tion of anything, and the highest mountains, were cov- 
ered up and submerged in water fifteen cubits; and here 
they added other fa'bles of how men came to multiply 
from the few who escaped from this destruction in a 
toptlipetlocali; that this word nearly signifies a close 
chest; and how, after men had multiplied, they erected a 
very high zacuali, which is to-day a tower of great height, 
in order to take refuge in it should the second world (age) 



174 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

be destroyed. Presently their languages were confused, 
and, not being able to understand each other, they went 
to different parts of the earth. The Toltecs, consisting 
of seven friends, with their wives, who understood the 
same language, came to these parts, having first passed 
great land and seas, having lived in caves, and having en- 
dured great hardships in order to reach this land; they 
wandered 104 year through different parts of the world 
before they reached Hue Hue Tlapalan, which was in Ce 
Tecpatl, 520 years after the flood. Here we see that the 
depth of the water over the earth, fiften cubits, as given in 
the Toltec legend, is precisely the same as that named -a 
the Bible : "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail." 
— Genesis, Chap. 7-20. 



The Mandan Indians' Traditional Ceremonies in Re- 
membrance of the Flood. 

Among the Mandan Indians we not only find flood 
legends, but, more remarkable still, we find an image of 
the Ark preserved from generation to generation. In the 
center of the principal villages is an open space, which 
they use as a public square, 150 feet in diameter and cir- 
cular in form, which is used for festivals and all public 
games, shows and exhibitions. Their lodges around this 
open space front in, with the doors toward the center; in 
the middle of which stands an object of great religious 
veneration, on account of the importance it has in connec- 
tion with the annual religious rites. This object is in the 
form of a large hogshead, some eight or ten feet high, 
made of planks and hoops, containing within it some of 
their choicest mysteries or medicines. They called it the 
big 'Canoe. This, is a representation of the Ark; the 
ancient Jews venerated a similar image, and some of the 
ancient Greek states followed in processions a model rf 
the Ark of Deucalion. But it is indeed surprising to find 
this practice perpetuated by a race of Indians in the heart 
of America. The ceremonies of the Mandans consisted 
of a solitary figure approaching their principal village on 
a certain day, while a deafening din and much confusion 
are kept up within the village. W'hen the figure ap- 



COMMENTS ON THE FLOODS. 175 

proaches he is met by all the chiefs and braves, who 
receive him cordially by recognizing him as an old ac- 
quaintance, and pronouncing his name Numohkmuck- 
anah (the first or only man). The body of this strange 
personage, which was chiefly naked, was painted with 
white clay, so as to resemble at a distance a white man. 
He enters the medicine lodge, and goes through certain 
mysterious ceremonies. 

During the whole of the day Numohkmuckanah (the 
first or only man) travels through the village, stopping in 
front of each man's lodge and crying until the owner of the 
lodge comes out and asks who he is and what was the 
matter. To which he replies by narrating the sad catas- 
trophe which had happened on the earth's surface by the 
overflowing of the waters, saying he was the only person 
saved from the universal calamity; that he landed his big 
canoe on a high mountain in the west, where he now re- 
sides; that he has come to open the medicine lodge, which 
must needs receive a present of an edged tool from the 
owner of every wigwam, that it may be sacrificed to the 
water; for, he says, if this is not done there will be another 
flood, and no one will be saved, as it was with such tools 
that the big canoe was made. Having visited every lodge 
in the village during the day, and having received such a 
present from each, as a hatchet, a knife, etc. (which is un- 
doubtedly prepared ready for the occasion), he places 
them in the medicine lodge; and, on the last day of the 
ceremony they are thrown into a deep place in the river — 
sacrificed to the spirit of the waters. Chief among the 
sacred things kept in the Ark or medicine canoe are four 
. sacks of water, called Echteehka, sewed together, each of 
them in the form of a tortoise lying on its back, with a 
bunch of eagle feathers attached to its tail. These four 
tortoises they daim to contain the waters from the four 
quarters of the" world; and that those waters had been 
contained therein ever since the settling down of the 
waters. 

All nations and tribes were found with traditions of 
a flood, because all tribes and nations have had. or will 
experience, a political flood. For example, India has been 
politically flooded 'by the British, and at the present time 



176 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

millions of its inhabitants are suffering awful hunger, as 
the British have left them but a few dollars per capita, and 
in consequence of the failure of but a single crop the poor 
creatures are reduced to a starving condition, and the time 
is fast approaching when the United States, which is the 
great agency of God the Almighty, will, by its enactments, 
paralyze the finances of all the earth (Europe). Then the 
flood that is now upon all the earth will begin to subside, 
for in that time the earth will reel to and fro like a drunken 
man, and all the kings of the earth will be destroyed upon 
the earth (Europe) ; then will come the resurrection of rhe 
dead, them that sleep in the dust of the earth (Europe). 



The Word Heaven in Prophecy Symbolizes the 
United States. 

Josephus* Discourse Concerjiing Hades. 

Section 7. "And now if you Gentiles will be per- 
suaded by these motives and leave your vain imagina- 
tions about your pedigrees, and gaining of riches and 
philosophy, and will not spend your time about subtilties 
of words, and thereby lead your minds into error, and if 
you will apply your ears to the hearing of inspired 
prophets, the interpreters iboth of God and of his word, 
and will believe in God, you shall both be partakers of 
these things and dbtain the good things that are to come; 
you shall see the ascent into the immense heaven plainly 
and that kingdom which is there. For what God hath now 
concealed in silence (will be then made manifest), what 
neither eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard, nor hath it en- 
tered into the heart of man, the things that God hath pre- 
pared for them that love him." 

Section 8. "In whatsoever way I shall find you in 
them, shall I judge you entirely; so cries the end of all 
things. * * * " 

The immense heaven that has been concealed in 
silence, and the kingdom which is there, is the United 
States. The kingdom by the people; that means by God, 
and the United States is the face of God, and is the mosi 
that iman can ever see of God while on this globe, as the 
scripture says: "For God is a spirit," and he will only 
manifest himself in his people and kingdom. Neither 
will his Christ ever be seen in any other way than in the 
face of his people and kingdom, which he is now prepar- 
ing for them, as the scriptures say plainly that Christ is 
the spirit of prophecy. 

177 



178 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

John Brown, the son of man, represented the Chris- 
tion factions which had come into existence by the preach- 
ing of Christ, and in the Scriptures are to be found the 
ahegorical and mysterious numbers that point directly to 
the date and manner of his coming, so that man would 
have more and plainer proof of the Creator and of his 
people, the United States, which is the kingdom of Israel 
restored, and the new Jerusalem that was to come down 
out of heaven from God. This kingdom does not mean 
a monarchy, but 'Christ's kingdom, governed by the peo- 
ple, as God only favors a democratic form of government 
throughout all of his Scriptures. 

Josephus says plainly that the United States is now 
an aristocratic government, and has 'been for some time. 
Merely the electing of the Senate by the State Legisla- 
tures would make it an aristocracy, but that will be of 
short duration, as eighteen hundred and ninety-seven will 
be the beginning of the reformation, or transfiguration, of 
our government. 

Isaiah, Chap. 44-28: "That saith of Cyrus, he is my 
shepherd, and shall perform ail my pleasure; even saying 
of Jerusalem, she shall be built; and to the temple, thy 
foundation shall be laid." 

45, I to 8: "Thus saith the Lord to his annointed, to 
Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations 
before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the 
doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut." 

2. "I will go before thee, and make the rugged places 
plain; I will break in pieces the doors of brass and cut in 
sunder the bars of iron." 

3. "And I will give thee the treasures of darkness 
and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know 
that I am the Lord, which call thee by thy name, even the 
God of Israel." 

4. "For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel, my 
chosen, I have called thee by thy name; I have surnamed 
thee, though thou hast not known me." 

5. "I am the Lord, and there is none else; beside me 
there is no God; I will gird thee, though thou hast not 
known me." 

6. "That they may know from the rising of the sun 



THE WORD HEAVEN IN PROPHECY. 179 

and from the west that there is none beside me; I am the 
Lord, and there is none else." 

7. "I form the Ught and create darkness; I make 
peace and create evil; I am the Lord, that doeth all these 
things." 



The Son of Man. 

Matthew, 'Chap. 10, 5-6-23-34: "These twelve Jesus 
sent forth, and charged them, saying, go not into any w y 
of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samari- 
tans; ibut go rather to the lost sheep of the house of 
Israel." 

23. "But when they persecute you in this city, flee 
into the next; for verily I say unto you, ye shall not have 
gone through the cities of Israel, till the son of man be 
come." 

34. "Think not that I come to send peace on the 
earth; I come not to send peace, but a sword." 

Daniel, Chap. 7, 13-14: "I saw in the night visions, 
and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one 
like unto a son of man, and he came even to the Ancient 
of Days, and they brought him near before him." 

14. "And there was given him dominion, and glory, 
and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and lan- 
guages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting 
dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom 
that which shall not be destroyed." 

Clouds of heaven means trouble in the United States. 
This one like unto the son of man, is the fourth conspicu- 
ous Messiah. 

1st. Cyrus. 

2d. The Son of God — Christ. 

3d. The son of man — John Brown. 

4th. One like unto a son of man. 

The efifect of this revolution will be seen from 1896 
to 1901, and will be the greatest of all, or the culmination 
of all Christian revolutions since the time of Cyrus. This 
revolution will not only be a cleansing or re-creation of the 
church, but the cleansing and regeneration of a great 
nation, the United States, which is the heaven. A.i 



l8o ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

churches and antiquated creeds and other remnants of 
mythology will pass out of existence as a result of this 
revolution, not 'because of the iniquites in those churches 
and creeds, but having been created for a purpose and 
having served that purpose they vvill pass away as some- 
thing no longer necessary. 

II. Esdras, Chap. 6, 17-19-20-24: " * * * There 
was a voice that spake, and the sound of it was like the 
sound of many waters." 

The voice was like the sound of many waters; and all 
those who will info^rm themselves can hear the sound of 
those waters, as that sound will come from the political 
world. Waters, as we have said before, always symbolizes 
politics. 

jg^ " * * * ^^^ when the affliction of Sion 
shall^De fulfilled." The afifliction of Sion means the United 
States of Israel, and that our affliction will be nearly 
ended when that of the earth begins. 

20. "And when the world, that shall begin to vanish 
away, shall be finished, then will I shew these tokens; the 
books shall be opened before the firmament, and they shall 
see all together." 

And when the world (Europe) begins to disappear, 
then the books (Scriptures) will be revealed, and then 
Europeans will understand the same as the Americans, 

24. " * * * The springs of the fountains shall 
stand still, and in three hours they shall not run." 

Three hours is just one-eighth of a day, and a day is 
as a yearJn prophecy, and the one-eighth part of a year 
would be about forty^five days. The springs of the foun- 
tains that will stand 'Still for forty-five days symbolizes a 
general stagnation of all business in Europe for one- 
eighth part of a year. 

25. "Whosoever remaineth from all these that I have 
told thee shall escape, and see my salvation, and the end 
of your world." 

Shall see the end of your world. Now the above will 
apply to those who will see the end of a world, and it will 
apply to no other place than Europe, the old Roman earth, 
whose political and financial foundations will soon begin 
to disappear. 



THE WORD HEAVEN IN PROPHECY. i8l 

26. "And the men (meaning- nations) that are re- 
ceived shall see it, who have not tasted death from their 
birth (meaning the nations that are not destroyed in the 
great political earthquake), and the heart of the inhab- 
itants shall be changed, and turned into another mean- 
ing." 

2^. "For evil shall be put out, and deceit shall be 
quenched." 

28. "As for faith, it shall flourish, corruption shall be 
overcome, and the truth, which hath been so long without 
fruit, shall be declared." 

This, like the son of man, is the fourth Messiah, or 
fourth revolution, and it will be more intense in its cleans- 
ing powers than the three preceding ones. Jesus Christ 
came according to prophecy as the Son of God, and, ac- 
cording to sym'bolic prophecy, John Brown came as the 
son of man, and this one that Daniel speaks of is like unto 
a son of man. Now the one like the son of man will be 
here and begin his revolution as soon as the little book is 
unsealed. It is the book that Daniel saw on the right hand 
of him who sat on the throne. The book was written 
within and the back-side sealed up with seven seals, and 
no one was found worthy to open the book but the Lamb. 
The Lamb is the testimony of Christ, and Christ is the 
spirit of prophecy. 



The Four A7timals Johfi Saw in Heaven, 

John saw four animals in heaven. The first was like 
to a lion (resembled a lion), the second was like to a calf, 
the third having its face as of a man, and the fourth animal 
like to an eagle flying. They all four are a re'semblance or 
a type of something, as a flag may represent a nation. 
There are many passages of Scripture that only teach us 
figuratively, and it is not a little remarkable that the four 
national standards of old Israel precisely coincide with 
these four beasts; and they were the representatives of 
nationality. A lion was the standard of Judah and two 
tribes on the east of the camp of Israel. A calf or ox was 
the standard of Ephraim and the two triibes on the west. 
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tribes on the south. An eagle flying was the standard oi 
Dan and two tribes on the north. To these the vision of 
the four animals seen by John will apply. It is important 
where John saw these animals. 

Revelation, Chap. 4, 1-2: "After these things I saw, 
and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice 
which I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, 
one saying, come up hither, and I will shew thee the 
things which must come to pass hereafter." 

2. "Straightway I was in the spirit; and, behold, 
there was a throne set in heaven, and one itting upon the 
throne." 

John accepts the invitation and goes up for the pur- 
pose of viewing ithe things that were to take place after 
there was a door opened in heaven, and views the pan- 
orama of heaven from that time forward. The things that 
John saw in heaven certainly establish the fact that there 
are twenty-four thrones and twenty-four crowned elders 
sitting on them in the celestial heaven. Only a latter-day 
spiritualist could entertain such an a'bsurdity. The heaven 
referred to is the heaven of the United States. 

Revelation, Chap. 4, 4-10: "And round about the 
throne were four and twenty thrones; and upon the 
thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in 
white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold." 
White garments and crowns of gold symbolize a pure 
constitution. 

10. "The four and twenty elders shall fall down be- 
fore him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him 
that liveth forever and ever, and shall cast their crowns 
before the thfone." Thus showing that the twenty-four 
elders became uncrowned after the door was set open in 
heaven. 

Before the revelation of John was given, the history of 
the world was already in the hands of Israel, but Daniel 
had declared that it would be a sealed vision till the time of 
the end. The sealed book of Revelation, 5, 1-2, coin- 
cide with that of Daniel, 12-4: "B'Ut thou, O Daniel, shut 
up the words and seal the book even to the time of the 
end." 

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sealed to men, the opening of the Htitle book and the 
breaking of the seven seals will have to be looked for in 
the future. The seven seals show that the book con- 
tained seven great prophecies, and being written without 
and within, shows other prophecies in addition to those 
heretofore esteemed canonical or sacred. Or, 
there will be some discovered that have always been 
known as profane histories. They will suddenly be re- 
vealed, and it may be that those additional books (and 
they are many — (historical and prophetic) will constitute 
the opening of the sealed book— the breaking of the seven 
seals. 

And the twenty^four elders fell down before the lamb 
at ithe same time. The elders typify our Presidents, and 
these 'things (elders falling down before the lamb) will 
begin -while the twenty-fourth elder (President) is in 
office. The twenty-fourth elder is mentioned in prophecy 
as their (Israel's) enemy, and will be the last king of 
Israel (President of the United States), or will be the last 
one 'that will have the power that Presidents now have. 
They are rated as kings now, but their power will remain 
with the people after it is taken away in the 'time of the 
twenty-fourth elder, meaning during the administration 
of the twenty-fourth President. Our present financial 
fabric will be overturned by a new one, typified by Titus, 
a Roman general, son of Vespasian, and that he will de- 
molish the (our financial) temple to its foundation at the 
end of the same number of years after 1826 A. D. that the 
ancient Jewish temple was destroyed by the Romans 
after the birth of Jesus Christ, which has never been fully 
established. Although fire was thrown through a golden 
window in what we suppose to be the seventieth year after 
Christ, which we think is correct, as it corresponds with 
the fusion thrown into the golden window of our modern 
financial temple July 27th, 1896, in St. Louis, when the 
fusionists endorsed W. J. Bryan, which was seventy years 
after the birth of the son of man in 1826, which was the 
Home Missionary Society that was organized in that 
year. When the time of Christ's birth is clearly estab- 
lished then future events of the United States can be f. ^re- 
told with considerable accuracy, as the prophecies contain 



i84 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

a complete history of our country, both poHtical and finan- 
cial ; also they declare that before the events come to pass 
that they would be told of them; of course that time has 
not yet come, but it is to begin with the transfiguration, 
which cannot be further oH than three years, for its resur- 
rection, after our country had reached its allotted 120 
years in 1896, from which it of course will be three years 
in its transfiguration, which means resurrection. 

Isaiah, 48-5: "Therefore, I have declared it to thee 
from of old; before it came to pass I shewed it thee; lest 
thou shouldst say, mine idol hath done them, and my 
graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded 
them." The above is proof plain that a time would come, 
when the Scriptures would tell us of some events before 
they came to pass, lest we will think our idols brought 
those events about. Now what are idols? To explain, we 
will say that it is safe to say that the present theology be- 
lieves that the command against idols in the Scriptures 
was directed against a few little idols of wood and stone 
in the incipient days of antiquity, which would not be en- 
tertained by one in ten thousand, if it had not been 
brought down to them by the religious creeds, whose 
pride is to say that their precepts never change. All the 
science of prophecy is hurled against man, in the days of 
man, which was from 1776 to 1896, as the days of man 
were to be 120 years. Did the great idol Mammon ever 
have more true worshipers than since the days of 1776? 
He did not. Then there has been fifty idols worshiped 
since then, where one was before. Those 120 years have 
been the days of the Lord's preparation, the preparation 
for the great Sabbath of a thousand years, which begins 
as soon as all things are created, and all things will not be 
finished until the end of the six ages, the end of the 6,000 
years, and is the end of creation. The days of man for 
120 years have been the days of idolatry; we all have our 
idols. 

Hosea, Ohap. 8-7: "For 'they sow the wind, and they 
shall reap the whirlwind; he hath no standing corn; the 
blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall 
swallow it up." 

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shall the king of Israel ibe utterly cut off." 

Hosea, Chap. 7-5: "On the day of our king the 
princes made themselves sick with the ^heat of wine; he 
stretched out his hand with scorners." 

Amos, Chap. 5-16: " * * * Wailing shall be in 
all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, 
Alas! alas!" 

^ephaniah, Chap, i, 11-14:, - * * * aU that 
were laden with silver are cut off." 

14. "The great days of Vhe Lord is near, it is near 
and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord 
Lord; the mighty man crieth there bitterly." 

Ezekiel, Chap. 2, 9-10: "And when I looked, behold, 
an hand was put forth unto 'me ; and, lo, a roll of a book 
was therein." 

10. "And he spread it before me; and it was written 
within and without; and there was written therein lam- 
entations, and mourning, and woe." 

Chap. 3, I to 12: "And he said unto me, son of man, 
eat that thou findest ; ^eat this roll, and go, speak unto the 
house of Israel." 

2. "So I opened my mouth and he caused me to eat 
the roll." 

3. "And he said unto me; son of man, cause thy 
belly to eat and fill thy bowels with Chis roll that I give 
thee. Then did I eat it ; and it was in my mouth as honey 
for sweetness," 

4. "And he said unto me, son of man, go, get thee 
unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto 
them." 

5. "For thou art not sent to a people of a strange 
speech and of a hard language, but to the house of 
Israel." 

6. "Not to many peoples of a strange speech and oi 
an ihard language, whose words thou canst not under- 
stand. Surely, I sent thee to them, they would hearken 
unto thee." The universality of their own language is 
phenomenal to the great house of antitypical Israel, as 
seventy-five millions. of people all speaking the same lan- 
guage in one nation, is unparalleled in the history of all 
nations. 



i86 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

7. "But the house of Israel will not hearken unto 
thee; for they will not hearken unto me; for all of the 
house of Israel are of an hard forehead and of a stiff 
heart." 

8. "Behold, I have made thy face hard against their 
faces, and thy forehead hard against itheir foreheads." 

9. "As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy 
forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at tlieir 
looks, though they ibe a rebellious house." 

10. "Moreover, he said unto me, son of man, all of 
my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine 
heart, and hear with thine ears." 

11. "And go, get thee to them of captivity, unto the 
children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, 
thus saith the Lord God; whether they will hear, or 
whether 'they will forbear." 

The captivity are those who were carried captive 
by Shalmaneser, the King of Assyria, who carried them 
over the waters, and so came they into another land. 

II. Esdras, Chap. 13-41 : "But they took this counsel 
among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of 
the heathen and go forth into a further country, where 
never mankind dwelt." 

The United States is the only place that will answer 
to the country where mankind never dwelt, as it was with- 
out a civilization, and those ten tribes that were carried 
to the cities of the Medes never did return to Palestine, 
and they are mentioned as the lost tribes, or the children 
of the captivity, many times in the Scriptures. 

There is no record of the ten tribes ever returning to 
the land of Canaan. There is, however, a record of their 
going to a further country where mankind never before 
dwelt. 

II. Kings, Chap. 17-6: "In the ninth year of Hoshea, 
the King of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away 
unto Assyria and placed them in Halah, and in harbor, on 
the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the iMedes." 

Ezekiel, Chap. 3-12. "Then the spirit lifted me up, 
and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, 
blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place. 

Ezekiel, Chap. 3, 24-25-26-27: Then the spirit en- 



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tered into 'me, and set me upon my feet; and ne spake 
with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine 
house." 

25. "But thou, son of man, behold, they shall lay 
hands upon t'hee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou 
shalt not go out among, them." 

26. "And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof 
of thy mouth, tha;t thou shalt be dumb, and s'halt not be 
to them a reprover, for they are a rebellious house." 

2j. "But when I speak with thee, I will open thy 
mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, thus saith the Lord 
God; he that heareth, let him hear; and he that for- 
beareth, let him fofbear; for they are a rebellious house." 

Ezekiel, Ohap. 4, 4 to 9: "Moreover lie thou upon 
thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel 
upon it; according to the number of the days that thou 
shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity." 

5. "For I have appointed the years of their iniqiuity 
to be unto thee a number of days, even three hundred and 
ninety days ; so s'halt thou bear the iniquity of the house of 
Israel." 

6. "And again, when thou hast accomplis'hed these, 
thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity 
of the house of Judah; forty days, each day for a year, have 
I appointed it unto thee." 

7. "And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of 
Jerusalem, wiith thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt 
prophesy against it. 

8. "And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou 
shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast 
accomplished the days of 'thy siege." 

Ezekiel, Chap. 5, 7 to 11 : "Therefore, thus saith the 
Lord God, because ye are turbulent more than the na- 
tions that are round about you, and have not walked in 
my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have 
done after the ordinances of the nations that are round 
about you." 

8. "Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I, 
even I, am against thee; and I will execute judgments in 
the midst of thee in the sight of the nations." 

9. "And I will do in thee that which I have not done. 



i88 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of 
all thine abominations." 

10. "Therefore, the fathers shall eat the sons in the 
midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I 
will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of 
thee will I scatter unto all the winds." 

When were the Israelites more turbulent than the na- 
tions round about them? Was it in the days of old, in 
their glory under Solomon, or David? Ezekiel would 
have said something concerning t'hem if it had been in 
their time. Yet they were tur'bulent and rebellious many 
times; but their fathers never ate their sons, nor their sons 
never ate their fathers in those days, as the latter is being 
fulfilled at the present time by the older States of the 
Union (the fathers), as they are bankers and the manufac- 
turers also; they have legislated in their own favor until 
they have nearly devoured their sons (the new Western 
producing States). The sons to eatitheir fathers, has yet to 
be fulfilled. Yet 'the meagre supply of gold, together with 
the contracted currency, will prevent the sons from paying 
the principal or interest on the mortgages held by their 
fathers; also of buying but little of their manufactured 
products; consequently their fathers (factories and banks) 
will collapse. According to what we find in propliecy, tiie 
fathers will eat their sons, and the sons will eat their 
fathers. The older states will hold the monetary ascend- 
ency over the newer, and will consume, or eat, the younger 
until 1897-8; then the younger will possess themselves of 
that power over the older States of the Union, and will 
in turn eat, or consume, their fathers (the older States of 
the Union). 

Ezekiel, Chap. 7-19: "They shall cast their silver in 
the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; 
their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them 
in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they shall not satisfy 
their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been 
the stum/bling 'block of their iniquity." The above is 
easily interpreted, as the silver is already cast in the streets 
and the gold is being removed from the people. 

11. Esdras, Chap. 6-22: "And suddenly shall the 



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sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall sud- 
denly be found empty." 

The sown places will be found unsown. Sown or fer- 
tile places, always symbolize prosperity, and unsown or 
sterile places signify want and depression. 

Ezekiel, Cliap. 7-22: "My face will I turn also from 
them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers 
shall enter into it, and profane it." 

Is not the House of Representatives and the Senate 
full of robbery and, theft? Have not many of the Senators 
bought their seats in the Senate, even such a proportion of 
their number ithat it is looked upon as a common thing? 
Then, being themselves men of wealth, they legislate for 
themselves and for their class, which is the centralized 
money power t^hat is now working with great force in the 
older States (the fathers). 

The King of Assyria, in the ninth year of Hosea, car- 
ried the ten tribes of Israel out of Samaria and placed them 
in the cities of the Medes, on the river Gozan, <^and they 
never returned to Canaan. Had they done so, the Scrip- 
tures would have mentioned the fact. 

H. Kings, 'Chap. 17-24: "And the King of Assyria 
brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from 
Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed 
them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of 
Israel; and they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities 
thereof." 

Thus showing that the Israelties were carried out of 
the land of Samaria, which is a part of the land of Canaan, 
where there was colonized in their stead several kinds 
of people, and that same people of mingled blood dwelt in 
Samaria, the land of Palestine, in the time of Christ. 
Christ spoke of the lost tribes of Israel, at the time of his 
ministry. 

Matthew, Chap. 10, 6-7: But go rather to the lost 
sheep of the house of Israel." 

7. "And as ye go, preach, saying, the kingdom of 
heaven is at hand." 

Showing that it was understood at that time that they 
were losit, yet their location is not mentioned by any of 
the later prophets, excepting his great mountain that was 



190 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

to be built on top of the mountains (our national govern- 
ment that is built on our many State governments). 

11. Kings, Ghap. 21-13: "And* I will stretch over 
Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the 
house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth 
a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down." 

The line of Samaria and the plummet of Ahab signify 
the same that happened to Israel. The stock of Israel's 
captivity never returned to the land of Canaan. Neither 
was the original race that came out of Egypt in Judah and 
in Jerusalem when Christ came unto his people, as he 
called them, who were in Samaria and Judea at the time 
of hiiS ministry, as people Vk'ho dwelt there in his day were 
of mingled blood, and as Christ was of the lineage of 
David, so 'he was of mingled blood and not of the pure 
strain of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 
David was the lineal descendent of Rahab, the harlot and 
hotel-keeper of Jericho; also of the lineage of Ruth, the 
Moabite, who became the wife of Boaz, thus showing 
that the Almighty is not a respecter of persons. 

Some of the most prominent families of Israel were an 
amalgamation with other nations and other blood than 
that which came out of Egypt under Moses and estab- 
lished the republic under Joshua by adopting the consti- 
tutional laws that Moses had written and put into opera- 
tion in the wilderness during the interval of forty years, 
which typified the time from 1736 to 1776, in the great 
antitypical wilderness of America. 

The appellation of harlot was bestowed upon Rahab 
that she might symbolize the great Roman Catholic 
Church, the mother of harlots; and the same appellation 
will apply to the great church to symbolize her and her 
daughters in their fornication with the kings oif the earth 
(Europe) in their many unions of church and staate. Re- 
member that Rahab's house was built upon the wall of 
Jericho; and Jericho symbolized monarchy, which fell 
afterthe seven years' war for independence — from 1776 to 
1783 — ^which was symbolized by the children of Israel 
marching seven times around the city of Jericho during 
seven consecutive days (years), when its walls fell. The 
great church was built upon the walk of monarchy. The 



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saving of Rahab and all her family by the children of 
Israel symbolized the protection given to all churches by 
the great antitypical Israel of America. B'Ut in Joshua 
6-2^, it says: They saved Raha^b and all her kindred, but 
they set them without the camp of Israel; thus showing 
our protection over all religions; 'but their marriage with 
the state would be impossible. 

Ail that was to come down through the ages to estab- 
lish Christ's kingdom, the great antitypical Israel of 
America, was the promise to the seed of Abraham, and 
that was to be the testimony of Christ, and Christ is the 
spirit of prophecy. 

Revelation, Chap. 19-10: "And I fell down before 
his feet to worship him. And *he saith unto me. See thou 
do it not; I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy 
brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God; 
for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." 

Now Christ being the spirit of prophecy, and all the 
prophets are pointing in their prophecies to that kingdom, 
plainly showing that it was, and must come into existence 
by the preaching of Christ, which is the spirit of prophecy. 

Jesus told his disciples to go unto all the world and 
preach the gospel, and, lo, I will be with you always, even 
to the end of the world, for where the carcass is, there will 
the eagles be gathered. The carcass denotes his people 
and his kingdom. This is the only place that will answer 
to that place of which Christ said to his disciples, I go to 
prepare for you; for wherever they were preach- 
ing, he would be with them. The United States has the 
greater number of churc'hes, and they are independent of 
the state; the greater number of independent Christians, 
with the greater number of independent and active min- 
isters, who have the greater independence of thought and 
speech ; the more newspapers, the more charitable institu- 
tions and an unparalleled public school system. 



The Money Changers Cast Out of the United States 
of Israel Which Is the Temple of God in the New 
Jerusalem. 

Ezekiel, Chap. 34-16: "I will seek that which was 
lost, and I will 'bring again that which was driven away, 
and will bind up that which was 'broken, and will 
strengthen that which was sick, and the fat and the strong 
I will destroy; I will feed them in judgment." 

II. Esdras, Chap. 14, 3 to 7: "Then said he unto me. 
In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself unto Moses, 
and talked with him, when my people served in Egypt." 

4. "And I sent him, and led my people out of Egypt, 
and brought him up the mount of Sinai, where I held him 
be me a long season." 

5. "And told him many wondrous things, and shewed 
him secrets of die times, and the end, and commanded 
him, paying:" 

6. "These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt 
thou hide." 

Now this holding of Moses at Mount Sinai is sig- 
nificant of the prophecies that were to be hidden for a long 
time, such as those that have not been canonized — the 
Apocrypha and the Apocryphal New Testament, Jose- 
phus, Plutarch and parts of Rollin, Herodotus, Jasher, 
Enoch, Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, and, in fact, 
all truthful and accurate history of mankind and of the 
world, by whomsoever written, not meaning that all these 
are prophetic, but that by them the prophecies can, and 
will, be revealed. In the sixth verse he says: "These 
words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide." Thus 
plainly showing that a part of the Scriptures was to be 
hidden for a time, and 'God has so ordained that from the 
time Abraham was called out of Chaldea his people could 

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be traced by 'the prophecies that would 'be revealed by 
their corresponding with the history of the civilized 
world. 

When history is accurately compared with the 
prophecies the world will have a complete record of Israel, 
which the Almighty has, throughout all his works from 
the beginning, called his people; and they can be accur- 
ately traced by their emigrations and persecutions all the 
way down through the ages, until they are stopped by the 
great Pacific Ocean, the great sea on the west of Israel; 
and it is that land ithat was promised to Abraham by God, 
when Abrgiham was in the land of Canaan. It is well- 
known Scriptural fact that from Abraham should spring 
a multitude of nations, arid population innumerable; like 
the stars of heaven and the 'sand of the sea. While Abi-a- 
ham was in the little land of Canaan the Lord said unto 
him, Lift up thine eyes and look from the place where thou 
art, north, south, east and west, for all the land which thou 
seest, to thee will I give it and to thy seed forever. Arise, 
walk through the land, in the length of it and in the 
breadth of it, for I will give it unto thee. 

This promise to Abraham is recorded in Genesis, 
whidh is one of the books of Moses, and it is prophetic his- 
tory, and it is to be taken in its broadest sense. It is as 
broad as the world, and as long as the ages. It is that his 
people shall see that land through the Scriptural prophe- 
cies, and then, not until the time spo'ken of by Isaiah. 
That will 'be when he removes the face of the covering, and 
the veil that is spread over all nations, and the removal 
of that covering will 'begin in this country, for Isaiah says, 
in Chap. 25-7: "And he will destroy in this mountain the 
face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil 
that is spread over all nations." 

This mountain is ihis great civil government, the 
United States, whidh is the land of Israel portrayed in the 
Scriptures very many times, and in many places. 

Micah, Chap. 4-1: "But in the latter days it shall 
come to pass that the mountain of the Lord's house shall 
be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be 
exalted above the Hills, and people shall flow into it." 



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When is t'he last days, and where is there a nation that 
will answer to this mountain being established in the top 
of the mountains, and where is there a place that people 
are flowing into more than this country? There is no 
country that will answer this description except this great 
country (mountain) establisihed on the top of his great 
mountains of civil government, the United States of Israel, 
that is being restored. 

The removal of the covering will begin in this moun- 
tain in the year or at the end of the year 1897, as then 
will be the beginning of the so-called end of the ages. 
During the years 1897-8, and for some years thereafter, the 
iniquities that have gradually crept into the government 
of the United States will rapidly change for the better. 
Even the United States will lose its king; that is, the 
President will be divested of so much power that he will 
no longer be rated as a king. 

Ezekiel, Chap. 39-22: "So the house of Israel shall 
know that I am the Lord their God, from that day and 
forward." 

They are to know him from a certain time forward. 
Consequently that time is in the future, as his laws have 
never yet been kept as laid down in the Commandments 
by any nationality on the globe. 

The temple of God that is in the new Jerusalem, 
which is the United States of Israel. And who frequents 
the temple in these days? It is frequented hy many who 
have bought themselves into ofBce, and they go there to 
buy and sell, as the money changers, and them that sold 
oxen and doves, and that lobby iniqiuitious vessels (bills) 
through Congress (the temple). Christ will coime in spirit 
and sentiment to the temple of the United States, which is 
the new Jerusalem, at the end of the 6,000 symbolic years 
—1897-8-9. 

"And Jesus entered into the temple of God and cast 
out all that sold and 'bought in the temple, and over- 
turned the tables of the money changers, and the seats 
of those who sold doves." This was done just before the 
passover. And the passover symbolized the end of the 
6,000 symbolic years of creation, which will end in about 



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1899, or sometime in the administration of the twenty- 
fourth elder (Presidenit) of the antitypical Israel. 

Revelation, Chap. 11, 15 to 19: "And the seventh 
angel sounded" (the seventh agency will begin the resur- 
rection of the living, which is the transfiguration of 
Israel; the great voices in heaven are the great demon- 
trations in the United States for reforms that will affect 
all Europe); and there followed great voices in heaven, 
and they said, The kingdom of this world is become the 
kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign 
forever and ever." 

16. "And the four and twenty elders, which sit before 
God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped 
God." 

17. "Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God the 
Almighty, which art and which wast; because thou hast 
taken thy great power and didst reign." 

18. "And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath 
came, and the time of the dead to -be judged, and the time 
to give 'their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to 
the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and 
the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth." 

The twenty-four elders that sit before God on their 
thrones and fall upon their faces and worship God, sym- 
bolize Israel until the beginning of t)he transfiguration in 
the time of the twenty-fourth President. 

And the nations of Europe will be enraged, and the 
United States will 'have power to destroy those who de- 
stroy the earth (Europe). 

Revelation, Chap. 11-19: "And there was opened the 
temple of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in his 
temple the Ark of his Covenant, and there followed light- 
nings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and 
great hail." 

Then many will begin to see that the United States 
is the temple of God; and the Ark of his covenant will be 
seen in the temple, whidh means that the Scriptures can 
then be revealed sufficiently to coincide with the history 
of the United States, so that many will understand that it 
is the Israel which is being restored on so grand a plan 
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196 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

the second. The Ark of the Covenant is the promise and 
covenant of God, which can then be'seen through the 
Scriptures concerning the antitypical Israel of America, 
which is, according to all Scriptural promises, even those 
to Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

And the time of the dead to be judged will come soon 
after the beginning of our transfiguration; then the great 
political earthquake will come in the earth, which will 
be the resurrection of the dead (the nations of the earth), 
those wliich sleep in the dust of the earth (Europe). 

Revelation, Chap. 16, 17-18-19: "And the seventh 
poured out his bowl upon the air; and there came forth a 
great voice out of t^he temple, from the throne, saying, It 
is done." 

18. "And there were lightnings, and voices, and 
thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was 
not since there were men upon the earth, so great an 
earthquake, so mighty." 

19. "And the great city was divided into three parts, 
and the cities of the nations fell. * * * " 

The seventh agency upon the air is universal, and 
afifects all, and the great voice from the temple and the 
throne is from the United States, as it is the heaven. The 
earthquake will be a political upheaval in Europe, the 
greatest and mightiest that there has ever been since there 
was man (nations) upon the earth (Europe); and the 
great city (Europe) will be divided into three parts; and 
the cities of the nations fell. As the great city symbolizes 
the great European syndicate, which will break into three 
parts, so in like manner the cities of the nations symbolize 
the constitutions of the nations that will fall in that 
mightiest of political and financial earthquakes. 

Naham, 'Chap. 2-3: "The shield of his miglity men 
is made rfd, the valiant men are in scarlet. * * * " 

The Salvation army is in scarlet, the most valiant on 
the globe. The European red republican socialists' 
shield and banner is red; and when the seventh and last 
angel (agency) pours his bowl upon the atmosphere, the 
region of hurricanes, then some cyclone will furl the fiery 
banner of the mighty men whose shield is made red; then 
all Europe will quake and we will hear that great voice 



THE MONEY CHANGERS. 197 

out of the temple from thethrone, saying, It is done. How 
common the word's, "It is done;" they are as familiar as our 
old saying"I told you so." The great voice will come from 
the press of our land, which represents our temple and 
throne that is in heaven, tihe Israel of the United States. 



The Methodist Churches of America. 

Tobit and His Son Tobias^ and His J^amiiy, Symbolized 
the Alethodist Chzirches oj" the United States. 

First, as to the 'birth of To-bit. We find that to have 
taken place in the year 1718, when the Scotch Presby- 
terian famihes, sixteen in number, settled a few miles 
northwest of Haverhill, New Hampshire, now in Massa- 
chusettts. 

These colonists were descendants of those whom 
James I. of England transferred to the north of Ireland; 
where the penal laws aginst Protestants, and local taxa- 
tion, became intolerable. Tobit comes to the age of man 
and marries Anna, of his own kindred, in the year 1739. 
In this year George Whitfield went from Georgia to New 
England and preached in the fields, and on Boston com- 
mon, to vast congregations, with astonishing effect. 

Thus (Tobit) Puritan New England was married to 
(Anna) the Wesleyan, Whitfield, Methodist of Georgia 
twenty-one yeaxs after 1718, when Tobit was twenty-one 
years of age, in the year 1739. 

Birth of Tobias. Tobias was born in the year 1766. 
In that year Philip Embury formed a Methodist Society 
in New York, which afterward became the Methodist 
Episcopal Society of the United States. The formation of 
this society is what is meant by the birth of Tobias. 

Tobit lost his sight in the year 1776, when all the leaders 
of the Methodist societies returned to England, except 
Francis Asbury (who symbolized Tobit), who was pro- 
tected by Judg€ White of Delaware. Eight years after 
this, on the 3d of November, 1784, the Rev. Thomas Coke, 
LL. D., a Presbyter of the Church of England, arrived 
in America. He summoned all the Methodist preachers 
to meet him at Baltimore, December 25th, and on that 

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METHODIST CHURCHES OF AMERICA. 199 

day they formed the Methodist Episcopal Church, with 
Dr. Coke and Francis As-bury as superintendents. Thus 
Tobit's sight was restored. 

Tobit, Chap. 5-17: "The self-same time came Tobit 
home, and entered into his house, and Sara, the daughter 
of Raguel, came 'down from her upper chamber." The 
meeting of Methodist preachers, which formed the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, December 25th, 
1784, appointed Francis Asbury superintendent. This 
was the coming home of Toibit, and entering his house, 
after he had been out eight years (from the time the 
Methodist leaders left America in 1776, to the return of 
Coke in 1784). 

"And Sara, the daughter of Raguel, came down from 
her upper chamber." The Rev, Thomas Coke of the 
Church of England arrived in America from England and 
called the 'meeting of Methodist preachers at Baltimore, 
December 25th, 1784, which elected him one of the super- 
intendents of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which they, 
there organized. This is what is meant by Sara coming 
down from her upper chamber. 

Marriage of To'bias. The first step toward the forma- 
tion of a collective body of the Episcopal Church in the 
United States was taken at a meeting of a few clergymen 
from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, at New 
Brunswick, N. J., .May 13th, 1784. Their plans were 
matured October 5th, 1784, at an adjourned meeting at- 
tended by fifteen clergymen and eleven laymen, represent- 
ing New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
Maryland and Delaware. They agreed to recommend to 
the churches of the several States to send clerical and lay 
delegates to a convention to be held in Philadelphia Sep- 
tember 25th, 1785. 

Bishop-elect Seaibury, having been refused consecra- 
tion by the Archbishop of York, England, applied to sev- 
eral Scotch bishops who were not connected with the 
state, and he was consecrated at Aberdeen, November 
14th, 1784, by Bishops Kilgore, Petrie, and Skinner. 

We have already said that the event called the birth of 
Tobias was the formation of the 'Methodist Society in 
New York, which afterwards became the Methodist Epis- 



2(X) ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

copal Society of the United States. This change from 
Methodist to Methodist Episcopal Society took place, as 
above stated, in 1784; and it symbolizes, in the Apocryphal 
gospel, the marriage of Tobias. 

Tobit, Chap. 6-10: "The angel said to the young 
man (Tobias), Brother, to-day we shall lodge with Raguel, 
who is thy cousin; he also hath one only daughter named 
Sara; I will speak for her that she may be given thee for a 
wife." 

Tobit, 'Chap. 7, 9-10-11: "So he communicated the 
matter with Raguel; and Raguel said to Tobias, Eat and 
drink, and make merry." 

10, For it is meet that thou shouldest marry my 
daughter; nevertheless, I will -declare unto thee the truth." 

11. "I have given my daughter in marriage to seven 
men, who died that night they came in unto her; never- 
theless, for the present be merry. But Tobias said I will 
eat nothing here, till we agree and swear one to another." 
Raguel's daug'hter Sara symbolizes the Reformed, or 
Protestant Church that had been adopted by, or con- 
nected with, several English administrations and so^me 
other nationalities which disappeared or severed their re- 
lations with her, soon after they adopted its reforms, which 
nationalities symbolized Sara's seven husbands. 

Tobit, Chap. 7, 12-13: "Raguel said, Then take her 
from heqceforth, according to the manner, for thou art 
her cousin, and she is thine, and the merciful God give you 
good success in all things." 

13. "Then he called his daughter Sara, and she came 
to her father, and he took her by the hand, and gave her to 
be wife of Tobias, saying, Behold, take her after the 1-aw of 
Moses, and lead her away to thy father. And 1ie blessed 
them." 

Seabury was refused consecration as bishop by the 
Archbishop of York, a prelate connected with and serving 
under the state of England. Seabury was then conse- 
crated by the Scotch bishops who were independent of the 
state. So did Tobias take his wife, as Raguel said: "Ac- 
cording to the law of Moses," for according to the law ol 
Moses t'here was no connection between church and state. 

"Tobias said, I will eat nothing here till we agree and 



METHODIST CHURCHES OF AMERICA. 2ol 

swear one to another." Bishop-elect Seabury went to the 
Archbishop of York for consecration. This was refused, 
and Seabury (Tobias) said, "I will eat nothing here till we 
agree and swear," whereupon he went to Aberdeen, Scot- 
land, and was consecrated by Bishops Kilgore, Petrie and 
Skinner, who were not connected with the state. This 
was the marriage of Tobias. 

Tobit, Chap. 11-3:- "Raphael said to Tobias, let us 
haste before thy wife and prepare the house." Early in 
the spring of 1786, the committee of the Episcopal con- 
vention appointed to secure the Episcopate for America 
received a reply from the archbishops of the Church of 
England declining compliance with the request, until 
they were advised of the alterations proposed to be made 
in the prayer book. At t'he meeting of the convention, 
June 20th, the committee was instructed to communicate 
the changes deemed necessary for the church in America. 
These changes made for the church in America was the 
preparing of the house for Sara, by Raphael and Tobias. 

Tobit, Chap. 11, 11-12-13: "And took hold of his 
father; and he strake of the gall on his father's eyes, say- 
ing, be of good hope, my father. 

12. "And when his eyes began to smart he rubbed 
them." 

13. And the whiteness pilled away from the corners 
of his eyes; and when he saw his son, he fell upon his 
neck." 

This regaining of his sight by Tobit, eight years after 
he had lost it, in 1776, was the formation of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in 1784. In that year the Rev. Thomas 
Coke, a Presybter of the -Church of England, arrived in 
America, and called all the Methodist preachers to meet 
him in Baltimore Dec. 25, and on that day the Methodist 
Episcopal Church was formed. At this time there were 
eighty-three itinerant preachers and fourteen thousand 
nine hundred and eighty-eight members in the new 
church. 

"Then Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law, 
at the gate of Nineve, rejoicing and praising God." This 
was after the marriage of Tobias, and after Tobit had re- 



202 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

covered his sight. We find an account of the event in the 
induction into the Episcopacy of the Rev. Drs, White of 
Pennsylvania and Provoost of New York, in the Qiapel of 
Lamibeth Palace, London, England, on the 4th of Febru- 
ary, in the year 1787; after the removal of all obstacles to 
the consecration of American bishops. 

Tobit, Chap. 14-11: "When he had said these things 
he gave up the ghost in the bed, being a hundred and eight 
and fifty years old; and he (Tobias) buried him honoura- 
bly." Tobit was 'born in the year 1718, and died at the 
age of 158 years; which woulcl be in 1876. And we find 
his death to symbolize the death of Rev. Edmund S. 
James, D. D., senior and presiding bishop of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, who died in New York Septem- 
ber i8th, 1876 — 158 years after 1718. 

Death of Anna. Tobit, Chap. 14-12: "And when 
Anna, his mother was dead, he (Tobias) buried her with 
his father." Anna died in the same year as Tobit, her 
husiband — in 1876. Sister Harriet, the Mother Superior 
of the Protestant Episcopal Order of All Saints in the 
United States, died in Baltimore in that year. This is the 
event typified by the death of Anna, wife of Tobit. 

The senior and presiding bishop of the Methodist 
churches and the Mother Superior of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Order of All Saints in the United States both died 
in the year 1876; and those functionaries being no longer 
necessary to the Methodist churches of the United States, 
consequently they were symbolized 'by Tobit and his wife 
Anna. And as all the churches symbolized by Tobias and 
his sons sent representatives to the great congress of re- 
ligions at Chicago in 1893, and, of course, being repre- 
sented singly and independently at that congress, sym- 
bolized the death of Tobias, their headship, whether real 
or imaginary, as it was the first time they were ever pre- 
sented to the world, independently of a headship of some 
kind. 

Tobit, .Chap. 14, 3-4: "And when he was very aged, 
he called his son and the six sons of his son, and said to 
him, ^my son, take thy children; for, behold, I am aged, 
and am ready to depart out this life." 

4. "Go into Media, my son, for I surely believe those 



METHODIST CHURCHES OF AMERICA. 203 

things which Jonas, the prophet, spake of Nineve, that it 
shall be overthrown and that, for a time, peace shall rather 
'be in Media." Tobit's son, and his sons were seven in 
number, and are the Methodist Episcopal Church and its 
children. Tobias is the main body of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, which includes the Methodist Episcopal 
South, the Methodist Episcopal African, the Methodist 
Episcopal African Zion, and the Methodist Episcopal 
Colored. The six sons of Tobias are the Free Methodist, 
the Congregational Methodist, the Primitive Methodist, 
the Protestant Methodist, the Welsh Calvanistic Meth- 
odist, and the Wesleyan Methodist. 

The Methodist churches are all mentioned in the 
masculine gender, except those symbolized by the wives 
of Tobit and his son, Tobias; and aside from the churches 
symbolized 'by Tobit and Tobias, we have found none 
others mentioned in the masculine gender. Tobit's wife, 
Anna, the mother of Tobias, and the wife of To'bias were 
both relatives of the State Church of England; and as 
Tobit and his son Tobias, and his sons, all symbolize the 
Methodist churches that were created in America, we 
must look to the part that came from Europe, to symbohze 
their wives. The Methodist churches standing alone and 
independent of the state is the reason that the prophets 
mention them in the masculine gender; and those Epis- 
copal parts that are or were connected with the state are 
spoken of in the feminine gender. 

Tobit, 14-8: "And now, my son, depart out of 
Nineve." (This was the Nineveh to which Jonah was sent 
to proclaim its destruction, and typifies the collective 
churches of America.) "Because that those things which 
the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass." This 
clearly foretells the destruction of, or a change in, the 
church of America. Tobit said this to his son shortly 
before he died, in 1876. Tobias lived until 1893. 

Tobit, 14-14: "And he died at Ecbatana in Media, 
being an hundred and seven and twenty years old." 

15. "But before he died he heard of the destruction 
of Nineve." Consequently the destruction of Nineve took 
place between 1876 and 1893. 

Nahum, Chap. 2-8: "But Nineveh hath been from of 



504 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

old like a pool of water; yet they flee away. Stand, stand, 
they cry, but none looketh back" (or causeth them to 
turn). "From of old. Hike a pool of water" will imply its 
former existence, and that this was the antitypical 
Nineveh, and to signify the date of the latter city. Nahum 
mentions some of the signs of the time in the days of the 
Lord's preparation. Nahum says that Nineveh is of old 
like a pool of water. Now water with the prophets always 
symibolize politics. For example: Revelation, Chap. 19- 
6: "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, 
and as the sound of many waters." Nineveh symbolizes 
the collective body of the churches that have settled down 
into a political pool of corruption. The churches of the 
present day may be seen supporting some of the most 
corrupt political pools of our body politic. 

Nahum, Chap. 2, 3-4: "The shield of his mighty 
men is made red (European socialists, with their red flag), 
the valiant men are in scarlet" (the Salvation army is the 
greatest, and more like Christ, of any organization on the 
globe, and it is they who are dressed in scarlet); "the 
chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation and 
the spears are shaken terribly." (This will apply to the 
railway trains and the great battle ships that flash with 
steel, and the shaking of the spears, to the armamenlts of 
the nations.) 

4. "The chariots rage in the streets, they jostle one 
another in the broadways; the appearance of them is like 
torches; they run like the lightnings." (This will apply to 
the great electric street car systems, as they are run by 
electricity, and the signals they carry appear like torches.) 

Ecbatana and Media are Greaco-Assvric names of 
ancient cities and territories, symbolizing modern institu- 
tions; as the ancient city of Ashmetha, in Media, was 
changed into the modern name of Ecbatana; and also the 
name of the ancient city of Gaza of Media, was changed to 
that of Ecbatana; and when Tobit advised his son, Tobias, 
to go into Ec^batana, in Media, it symbolized the change 
of principles which the churches are being requested to 
make. 



Many Jewish Writings Not Obtained. 

As we quote 'largely, and use many of the symbolic 
numerals found in the Antiquities of Josephus, and as they 
are sacred and divine, and are the symbolic inspired works 
of Josephus, hence we give the preface to his Antiquities. 
Josephus himself symbolized an American historian, and 
at the same time he symbolizes our United States Treas- 
ury. So did the old Jewish temple in Jerusalem symbolize 
our financial and banking system of the present time. 
When Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans under 
Titus, they set the temple on fire by throwing a fire-brand 
into the golden window on the 27th day of Tamuz-Pan- 
emus, seventy years after the birth of Jesus Christ, and 
that particular time sym'bolized the Fusionists that en- 
dorsed the silver wing of Democracy on the 27th day of 
July, 1896, which was in the seventieth year after the 
birth of the son ofman (Home Missionary Society), in the 
year 1826. The fire that started in St. Louis on that day 
will not be quenched until the temple is destroyed some 
time in the year 1898-9. He that hath understanding, let 
him reflect on the fire-brand that was hurled through the 
golden window of the temple on the 27th day of, July, 
1896, at St. Louis. 



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Preface of Flavius Josephus. 

I. "Those who undertake 'to write histories do not, 
I perceive, take that trouble on one and the same account, 
but for many reasons, and those such as are very different 
one from another. For some of them apply themselves to 
this part of learning, to show their great skill in composi- 
tion, and that they may therein acquire a reputation for 
speaking finely. Others of them there are who write his- 
tories in order to gratify those that happen to be con- 
cerned in them; and on that account have spared no pams, 
but rather gone beyond their own abilities in the perform- 
ance. But others there are, who, of necessity and by 
force, are driven to write history, because they were con- 
cerned in the facts, and so cannot excuse themselves from 
comimitting them to writing, for the advantage of pos- 
terity. Nay, there are not a few who are induced to draw 
their historical facts out of darkness into light, and to 
produce them for the benefit of the public, on account of 
the great importance of the facts themselves, with which 
they have 'been co^ncerned. Now of these several reasons 
for writing history, I must profess that two last were my 
own reasons also; for since I was myself interested in that 
war which we Jews had with the Romans, and knew my- 
self its parficular actions, and 'that conclusion it had, I was 
forced 'to give the history of it, because I saw that others 
perverted the truth of those actions in their writings. 

"2. 'Now I have undertaken the present work, as 
thinking it will appear to all the Greeks worthy of their 
study; for it will contain all our antiquities, and the con- 
stitution of our government, as interpreted out of the 
Hebrew Scriptures. And, indeed, I did formerly intend, 
when I wrote of the war, to explain who the Jews origin- 
ally were, what fortunes they had been subject to, and by 

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PREFACE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. 207 

what legislator they had been instructed in piety, and the 
exercise of other virtues; what wars, also, they had made 
in remote ages, till they were unwillingly engaged in this 
last with ithe Romans; tout because this work would take 
up a great compass, I separated it into a set treatise by 
itself, with a beginning of its own, and its own con- 
clusion; but in process of time, as usually happens to such 
as undertake great things, I grew weary, and went on 
slowly, it being a large subject, and a difficult thing to 
translate our history into a foreign and, to us, an unaccus- 
tomed language. However, some persons there were who 
desired to know our history, and so exhorted me to go on 
with it; and, above all the rest, Epaphroditus, a man who 
is a lover of all kind of learning, but is principally de- 
lighted with the knowledge of history; and this, on ac- 
count of his having been himself concerned in great afifairs 
and many turns of fortune, and having shown a wonderful 
vigor of an excellent nature and an immovable virtuous 
resolution in them all. I yielded to this man's persua- 
sions, who always excites such as have abilities in what is 
useful and acceptable to join their endeavors with his. I 
was also ashamed myself to permit any laziness of dispo- 
sition to have greater influence upon me that the delight 
of taking pains in such studies as were very useful. I 
thereupon stirred myself, and went on with my work more 
cheerfully. Besides the foregoing motives, I had others, 
which I greatly reflected upon; and these were, that our 
forefathers were willing to communicate such things to 
others; and that some of the Greeks took considerable 
pains to know the afifairs of our nation. 

"3. I found, therefore, 'that t/he second of the Ptolemies 
was a king, who was extraordinarily diligent in what con- 
cerned learning, and the collection of books; that he was 
also peculiarly ambitious to procure a translation of our 
law, and of the constitution of our government therein 
contained into the Greek tongue. Now Eleazer the high 
priest, one not inferior to any other of that dignity among 
us, did not envy the fore-named king the participation of 
that advantage, which otherwise he would for certain have 
denied him; but that he knew the custom of our nation 
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being communicated to others. Accordingly I thought 
it became me, both to imitate the generosity of our high 
pries't and to suppose there might even now be many 
lovers of learning, like the king; for he did not obtain all 
our writings at that time; but those who were sent to 
Alexandria as interpreters gave him only the books of 
the law, while there was a vast number of other matters 
in our sacred books. They indeed contain in them the 
history of five thousand years; in which time happened 
many strange accidents, many chances of war, and great 
actions of the commanders, and mutations of the form of 
our government. Upon the whole, a man that will peruse 
this history may principally learn from it that all events 
succeed well, even to an incredible degree, and the re- 
ward of felicity is proposed by God; but then it is to those 
that follow his will, and do not venture to break his excel- 
lent laws; and that so far as men any way apostatize 
from the accurate observation of them, w..at was practica- 
ble before becomes impracticable; and whatsoever they 
set about as a good thing is converted into an incurable 
calamity. 

"And now I exhort all those that peruse these books 
to apply their minds to God; and to examine the mind of 
our legislator, whether he hath not understood his nature 
in a manner worthy of him; and hath not even ascribed to 
him such operations as become his power, and hath not 
preserved his writings from these indecent fables which 
others have framed; although by the great distance of time 
when he lived, he might have securely forged such lies; for 
he lived two thousand years ago; at which vast distance of 
ages the poets themselves have not been so hardy as ti 
fix even the generations of their gods, much less the 
actions of their men, or their own laws. As I proceed, 
therefore, I shall accurately describe what is contained in 
our records, in the order of time that belongs to them; 
for I have already promised so to do throughout this un- 
dertaking; and this, without adding anything to what is 
therein contained, or taking away anything therefrom. 

4. But because almost all our constitution depends 
on the wisdom of Moses, our legislator, I cannot avoid 
saying somewhat concerning him beforehand, though 1 



PREFACE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS 209 

shall do it 'briefly; I mean, because otherwise, those that 
read my books may wonder how it come to pass that xi.y 
discourse, which promises an account of laws and his- 
torical facts, contains so much of philosophy. The reader 
is therefore to know, that Moses deemed it exceedingly 
necessary 'that he would conduct his own life well, and 
give law:s to others, in the first place should consider the 
divine nature, and, upon the contemplation of God's op- 
erations, should thereby imitate the ibest of all patterns, 
so far as it is possible for human nature to do, and to en- 
deavor to follow after it; neither could the legislator him- 
self have a right mind without such a contemplation; nor 
would anything he should write tend to the promotion of 
virtue in his readers; I mean, unless they be taught first of 
all that God is the Father and Lord of all things, and sees 
all things; and that thence he bestows a happy life upon 
those that follow him, but plunges such as do not walk in 
the paths of virtue into inevitable miseries. Now, when 
M'oses was desirous to teach this lesson to his country- 
men, he did not begin the establishment of his laws after 
the same manner ithat other legislators did; I mean, upon 
contracts and other rights between one man and another; 
but by raising their minds upwards to iregard God and 
his creation of the world, and by persuading them, that we 
men are the most excellent creatures of God upon earth. 
Now when once he had brought them to submit to re- 
ligion, he easily persuaded them to submit in all other 
things; for as to other legislators, they followed fables, 
and by their discourses transferred the most reproachful 
of 'human vices unto the gods, and so afforded wicked 
men the most plausible excuses for 'their crimes; but as 
for our legislator, when he had once demonstrated that 
God was possessed of perfect virtue, he supposed that men 
also ought to strive after the participation of it; and on 
those who did not so think, and so believe, he inflicted 1 e 
severest punishments. 

"I exhort, therefore, my readers to examine this whole 
undertaking in that view; for thereby i-t will appear to 
them that there is nothing therein disagreeable either to 
the majesty of God or to his love to mankind; for all 
things have here a reference to the nature of the universe; 



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while our legislator speaks some things wisely, but enig- 
matically, and others under a decent allegory, but still 
explains 'SUch things as required a direct explication, 
plainly and expressly. However, those that have a mind 
to know the reasons of everything, may find here a very 
curious philosophical theory, which I now, indeed, shall 
waive the explanation of; but if God afford me time for it, 
I will set about writing it after I have finished the present 
work. I shall now betake myself to the history before me, 
after I have first mentioned what Moses says of the crea- 
tion of the world, which I find described in the sacred 
books after the manner following." 



Josephus is purely American, and the greater part of 
his scriptural history is American, and in all of his works 
there is the history of the Israel of the United States of 
America. He mentions other states and nations for the 
purpose of tracing Israel to America; even Josephus him- 
self was a symbol. 

Antiquities, Book XX., Chap. 11-2: " * * * 
And now it will not be perhaps an invidious thing if I 
treat briefly of my own family, and of the actions of my 
own life, while there are still living such as can either 
prove what I say to be false or can attest that it is true; 
with which account I shall put an end to thesa Antiquities, 
which are contained in twenty books, and sixty thousand 
verses. And if God permit me I will briefly run over this 
war again, with what befell us therein to this very day, 
which is the thirteenth year of the reign of Caesar Domi- 
tian, and the fifty-sixth year of my own life. I have also 
an intention to write three 'books concerning our Jewish 
opinions about God and his essence, and about our laws; 
why, according to them, some things are permitted us to 
do and others are prohibited." 

Now, the thirteenth year of the reign of Caesar 
Domitian symbolizes our year 1896 (which will be shown 
when we estaiblish the birth of the son of man) and the 
fifty-sixth year of Josephus' own life would bring his birth 
in 1840. Keeping in mind that Josephus is the money 
power, or the national monetary and banking system, or 
our United States Treasury, as we find the birth of Jose- 



PREFACE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. 211 

phus to be the passage of the independent treasury bill, 
which passed the Senate January 23d and the House of 
Representatives June 30th, 1840. Thus was Josephus 
born. 

As ancient Israel was separated from Judah and Jer- 
usalem, so was the antitypical Israel of the South separ- 
ated from the antitypical Judah and Jerusalem of the 
North. 

The events pertaining to antitypical Israel of the 
South- have to be recorded from the exodus of the grand 
embarkation of the celebrated 300, who settled in Georgia 
in 1736. In like manner we find the events recorded from 
the celebrated settlement of Plymouth Rock in 1620 to 
symbolize antitypical Judah and Jerusalem of the North, 
a5. Jerusalem, the money power, has ever been with the 
Northern States. 

King David took Salem and named it Jeru-Salem, 
and when Israel had the unpleasantness with Rehoboam 
•hey seceded under Jeroboam, and talked back to Judah 
and said: "Now see to thine own house, David." * * * 
"But as for the children of Israel who dw^elt in the cities 
of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them." Thus the un- 
pleasantness between prototypical Israel and Judah sym- 
bolized that which has ever existed between antitypical 
Judah of the North and antitypical Israel of the South. 
The same trouble existed between ancient Israel, Judah 
and Jerusalem that has ever existed between the North 
and South and the power of Northern money. 



The Life of Flavius Josephus. 

Section i. "The family from which I am derived is 
not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along the 
priests, and as nobility among several people is of a dif- 
ferent origin, so, with us, to be of the sacerdotal dignity is 
an indication of the splendor of a family. Now, I am not 
only sprung from a sacerdotal family in general, but from 
the first of the twenty-four courses; and as among us there 
is not only a considera.ble difference between one family 
of each course and another, I am of the chief family of that 
first course also." 

Meaning Washington, as he was the first course of 
the twenty-four Presidents, and the twenty-fourth course 
will be in power at the end of 'the 6,000 symbolic ages, 
which will be some time between the years 1896 and 1900; 
and it will be during the administration of the twenty- 
fourth President; as our first twenty-four Presidents were 
symbolized by the twenty-four elders that John mentions 
in his Revelation. Also the first twenty-four courses men- 
tioned by Josephus typified our first twenty-four Presi- 
dents. 

The family of Josephus was founded, or sprung from 
the following source: On the 9th day of February, 1791, 
Congress chartered a national bank, with a capital of $10,- 
000,000, two millions of which was for the benefit of the 
United States Government. Now, Josephus, being in his 
56th year, in the year 1896, he must have been born in 
1840, and we find his birth in the passage of the indepen- 
dent treasury bill, which was finally passed by Congress 
on the 30th day of June, 1840, and which provided for an 
independent treasury for the safe keeping of the public 
funds, and their entire and total separation from banking 
institutions. 



THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. 213 

President Van Buren said in a message that he had 
prepared urging Congress to pass the measure: "Be the 
present issue for good or evil, it is for posterity that I write 
this message." A writer in the Democratic Review for 
April, 1840, said: "The great event of Van Buren's ad- 
ministration, by which it 'will hereafter be known and 
designated, is the divorce of bank and state in the fiscal 
affairs of the national government, and the return, after 
half a century of deviation, to the original design of the 
Constitution." 

Thus did Josephus (independent treasury) spring from 
the first of the tyventy-four courses. The first bank of the 
United States established in 1791, in the days of Wash- 
ington, was the first course. We have said that Josephus 
was American. We find interesting evidence in support 
of this in the phrases which he uses, as none of the other 
ancient Scriptures, when translated into English, have as 
many words as are commonly used by the masses of the 
American people, and were not used by, and were un- 
known to, the people of the time he is supposed to have 
written his Antiquities. The following are a few of the 
very many specimens: 

Villain, Calculate, Perhaps, 

Instance, , Hard-by, Votes, 

Reg-iments, Drums, Gauls, 

Record, Spaniard, Ringleader, 

Forged Deeds Sallies, Frigid, 

And Conveyances, Meantime, Snatched, 

Concession, Contemporaries, Exporting, 

Slaves, Theocracy, Pulchritude, 

Importing, Domestic servant. Scurrilous, 

Essence, Appellation, Animadvert, 

Mountebank, Phenomena, Plunder, 

Obliged, Armenians, Millions. 



Judith Destroys Holofernes, 

W/io Is a Symbol and a Part of the Iniquitous Baulking 
System of the United States. 

Apocrypha. Judith, Chap, i, i to .s: "In the twelfth 
year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in 
Nineve, the great city, in the days of Arphaxad, which 
reigned over the Medes in Ecbanata." 

2. "And built in Ec'batana walls round a'bout of stones 
hewn three cubits broad and six cu'bits long, and made 
the height of the wall seventy cubits and the breadth 
thereof fifty cubits." 

3. "And set the towers thereof upon the gates of it, 
an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the 
foundation threescore cubits." 

4. "And he made the gates thereof, even gates that 
were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth 
of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty 
armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen." 

iNabuchodonosor is here used as symbol of Charles 
the First of England, who reigned in Nineve (England), 
the great city, in the days of Arphaxad (Puritan) parlia- 
mentarians. Charles the First came to the throne in the 
year 1625, and the twelfth year of his reign would be in the 
year 1637, when Charles the First (Nabuchodonosor) 
made war with Arphaxad (Puritan) parliamentarians, and 
so vigorously were they persecuted that large numtber-s of 
them sought an asylum in America. 

Then he marched in 'battle array with his power 
against King Arphaxad (parliamentarians) in the seven- 
teenth year. This would be in 1642, seventeen years after 
1625. This is the date of the battle of Edghill, between 
Charles the First and the parliamentarians. 

214 



JUDITH DESTROYS HOLOFERNES. 215 

And built in Ecbatana walls round about of stones 
hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long. The Lx)ng 
Parliament passed a bill called the Triennial bill, which 
provided that there should be a parliament at least every 
three years. This bill was foretold in the stones three 
cubits broad. The stones, six cubits long, point to the 
six years of strife between Charles the First and the par- 
liamentarians. 

In the sixteenth verse of this same chapter it says: 
''So he returned after to Nineve." 

"Both he and his company of sundry nations, being 
a very great multitude of men of war, and there he took his 
ease, and banqueted, both he and his army, an hundred 
and twenty days (years)." This hundred and twenty days' 
rest is the hundred and twenty years of peace for the 
Puritan (parliamentarians) and freedom from royal perse- 
cution, from the year 1645 to 1765, when the stamp act was 
passed, and the persecution of the Puritans (Arphaxad) is 
commenced again. These were the descendants of the very 
Puritans who came to America to escape the persecutions 
of Charles the First, more than a hundred years before. 
"And set the towers thereof upon the gates of it an hundred 
cubits high." This hundred cubits (years) carries us for- 
ward from the year of the passage of the stamp act,. 1765, 
to the year 1865, when the civil war came to an end and 
organized capital first began to make its power felt. 

This money power is the modern Nabuchodonosor, 
which, under the protection of unjust laws, has grown to 
be. the most gigantic evil that ever threatened the life of a 
nation. And made the height of the wall seventy cubits. 
Seventy years from 1865 would leave 1795, the year when 
John Jay, who had been appointed envoy extraordinary 
to England, negotiated a treaty which secured to the 
Americans many rights claimed by them. In October of 
the same year a treaty was concluded with Spain, by 
which the boundaries between the Spanish territories of 
Louisiana and Florida and the United States were defined. 
That treaty also secured to the United States the free navi- 
gation of the Mississippi River, and the use of New Or- 
leans as a port for ten years. 

These later privilages, though secured for only ten 



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years, were never lost, for before that time had expired 
the United States had purchased Louisiana, and then 
owned both sides of the Mississippi River, from its source 
to the Gulf of Mexico. 

"And the breadth thereof fifty cubits." Fifty years 
before 1865 would be 181 5, when the Dey of Algiers de- 
clared war against the United States because of his dis- 
satisfaction with the payment of certain tribute demanded 
by him. 

Commodore Decatur captured an Algerine man-of- 
war and brought the war to a successful termination. 

"And set the towers thereof upon the gates of it an 
hundred cubits high." One hundred years before 1865 the 
stamp act was passed, and went into eff 't November ist, 
1765. This law required the colonists of America to stamp 
every paper, deed, will, or other document issued, and by 
this tax England purposed to raise a revenue frc m 
America. 

"And the breadth thereof, in the foundation, three 
score cubits." Sixty years before 1865 the war wi.h 
Tripoli was ended by treaty, June 4th, 1805. 

"And he made gates thereof, even the gates that were 
raised to the height of seventy cubits." Seventy years be- 
fore 1865 carries us back to the treaties spoken of — nego- 
tiated in 1795. "And the breadth of them was forty 
cubits." Forty years before 1865, in 1825, Mr. Poinsett 
was appointed the first American minister to Mexico, with 
instructions implying that the United States contemplated 
extending its jurisdiction to the Rio Grande. 

In the twelfth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor 
he made war upon Arphaxad. The twelfth year of the 
reign of Nabuchodonosor, which began in 1865, would 
be 1877, and the war which Nabuchodonosor (the money 
power) commences against Arphaxad (the commonalty) 
is the reduction of wages of the employes of the Baltimore 
and Ohio Railroad, which resulted in one of the greatest 
strikes that has ever taken place in this country or on the 
globe. State troops were called out in Maryland, Ohio, 
West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and the Federal troops 
•n West Virginia. Engagements between the strikers, 
I'aeir friends, and the soldiers occurred in Baltimore, in 



JUDITH DESTROYS HOLOFERNES. 217 

which several persons were killed and a large numibei 
wounded. In Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the strikers cap- 
tured a car filled with 'Coke, saturated the mass with petro- 
leum and igniting it pushed the car into the round-house, 
which, with all its contents, was burned. 

Between two and three hundred lives were lost in 
Pittsburg. Bloody riots occurred in Chicago, in which 
artilllery was freely used. There were seven railroads and 
eighty-four thousand employes concerned in this strike, 
and the loss of property was enormous — that of the com- 
pany, in the city of Pittsburg, Pa. (the Pennsylvania Cen- 
tral), amounted to $12,000,000, for which the county was 
subsequently sued. "Then he (Nabuchodonosor) marched 
in battle array with ihis power again&t King Arphaxad in 
the seventeenth year, and heiprevailed in his battle." The 
seventeenth year of Nabuchodonosor would be in 1882, 
when the money power (Na;buchodonosor) gains, and the 
people (Arphaxad) lose, by a bill which passes both houses 
of Congress, and is signed by the President July 12th, 
1882, extending the charters of the national banks. "And 
in the eighteenth year, the two and twentieth day of the 
first month (January 22d, 1883), there was talk in the 
house of Nabuchodonosor, King of the Assyrians, that he 
should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth. So he 
called unto him all of his officers, and all his nobles, and 
communicated with them his secret counsel, and con- 
cluded the affiicting of the whole earth out of his own 
mouth." 

Judith, Chap. 1-5: "Even in those days King Na- 
buchodonosor made war with King Arphaxad in the great 
plain, which is the plain in the borders of Ragau." 

Judith, Chap. 1-6: "And there came unto him a'l 
they that dwelt in the hill country, and all that dwelt by 
Euphrates, and Tigris, and Hydaspes, and the plain of 
Arioch, the King of the Elymeans, and very many nations 
of the sons of Chelod, assembled themselves to the battle." 

Judith, Chap. 1-7: "Then Nabuchodonosor, King oi 
the Assyrians, sent unto all that dwelt in Persia, and to a^ 
that dwelt westward, and to those that dwelt in Cilicia, and 
Damascus, and Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all that 
dwelt upon the sea coast." 



2i8 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Judith, Chap. i-8: "And to those among the nations 
that were of Carmel, and Galaad, and the higher Gahlee, 
and the plain of Esdrelom." 

Judith, Chap. 1-9: "And to all that were in Samaria 
and the cities thereof, and beyond Jordan unto Jerusalem, 
and Betane, and Chellus, and Kades, and the river of 
Egypt, and Taphmes, and Ramesse, and all the land of 
Gesem." 

Judith, Chap, i-io: "Until ye come beyond Tanis 
and Memphis, and to all the inhabitants of Egypt, until ye 
come to Che borders of Ethiopia." 

Judith, Chap, i-ii: "But all the inhabitants of the 
land made light of the commandment of Nabuchodonosor, 
King of the Assyrians; neither went they with him to the 
battle, for they were not afraid of him; yea, he was before 
them as one man, and they sent away his ambassadors 
from them without effect, and with disgrace." 

Judith, Chap. 1-12: "Therefore Nabuchodonosor 
was very angry with all this country, and sware by his 
throne and kingdom that he would surely be avenged upon 
all the coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and Syria, and that 
he would slay with tlhe sword all the inhabitants of the 
land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judea, 
and all that'were in Egypt, till ye come to the borders of 
the two seas." 

Judith, Chap. 1-13: -"Then he marched in battle 
array with his power against King Arphaxad in the seven- 
teenth year, and he prevailed in his battle ; for he overthrew 
all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen, and all 
his chariots." 

Judith, Chap. 1-14: "And became lord of his cities, 
and came unto Ecbatana, and took the towers, and spoiled 
the streets thereof, and turned the beauty thereof into 
shame." 

Judith, Chap. 1-15: "He took also Arphaxad in the 
mountains of Ragau, and smote him through with his 
darts and destroyed him utterly that day." 

Judith, Chap. 2-1: "And in the eighteenth year, the 
two and twentieth day of the first month, there was talk in 
the house of Nabuchodonosor, King of the Assyrians, that 
he should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth." 



JUDITH DESTROYS HOLOFERNES. 219 

Judith, Chap. 2-2: "So he called unto him all his 
officers, and his nobles, and communicated with them his 
secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of the whole 
earth out of his own mouth." 

Judith, Chap. 2-3: "Then they decreed to destroy all 
flesh, that did not obey the commandment of his mouth." 

Judith, Chap. 2-4: "And when he had ended his 
counsel, Nabuchodonosor, King of the Assyrians, called 
Holofernes, the chief captain of his army, which was next 
unto him, and said unto him." 

Judith, Chap 2-5: "Thus saith the great king, the 
lord of the whole earth, behold, thou shalt g« forth from 
my presence, and take with thee men that trust in their own 
strength, of footmen an hundred and twenty thousand; 
and the number of horses, with their riders, twelve thou- 
sand." 

The eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor would be 
eighteen years after 1865, in the year 1883, when the House 
bill to reduce internal revenue taxation having been adopt- 
ed, is sent to the Senate, where it is recommitted to the 
Committee on Finance, who report it on the 4th of Janu- 
ary, with amendments embracing a thorough revision of 
the tariff based upon the report of the tarifif commission. 
After several conferences the bill is adopted by both 
houses March 3 of that year. The consequences of the 
so-called revision or reformed tariff were injurious to the 
people in many respects. We will note one, that of 
crockery alone, during the year 1883 the importations are 
estimated at $8,000,000, an increase of $2,000,000 over the 
previous year, due, it is claimed, to the construction of the 
recent revision of the tariff, which practically gives the 
foreign manufacturers the advantage of 10 per cent, reduc- 
tion in the duties. 

II. Esdras, Chap. 15, 27-28-29: "For now are the 
plagues come upon the whole earth, and ye shall remain 
in them; for God shall not deliver you, because ye have 
sinned against him." 

28. "Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance 
thereof from the east." 

29. "Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall 



220 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

come out with many chariots, and the multitude of them 
shall be carried as the wind upon earth, that all they which 
hear them may fear and tremble." 

Tihe plagues are hurrying upon Europe; they are 
nearly all under arms already. The horrible vision is ap- 
pearing from the east in the Armenian massacres, and the 
vision will be established when the nations of the dragons 
of Arabia (which symbolize all Mohammedism, and all 
things pertaining to monarchy, as there are many millions 
of them beside the Turks) shall arm themselves and come 
upon Europe (earth) like the wind. Read 15th chapter of 
II. Esdras. 

Judith, Chap. 2-6: "And thou shalt go against all the 
west country, because they disobeyed my commandment." 

Judith, Chap. 2-^: "And thou shalt declare unto 
them that they prepare for me earth and water; for I will 
go forth in my wrath against them, and will cover the 
whole face of tihe earth with the feet of mine army, and I 
will give them for a spoil unto them." 

Judith, Chap. 2-8: "So that their slain shall fill their 
valleys and brooks, and the river shall be filled with their 
dead, till it overflow." 

Judith, Chap. 2-9: "And I will lead them captives to 
the utmost parts of all the earth." 

Judifih, Chap. 2-14: "Then Holofernes went forth, 
from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors 
and captains, and the officers of the army of Assur." 

Judith, Chap. 2-15: "And he mustered the chosen 
men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto 
an hundred and twenty thousand and twelve thousand 
archers on horseback." 

Judith, Chap. 2-16: "And he ranged them, as a great 
army is ordered for the war." 

Judith, Chap. 2-17: "And he took camels and asses 
for their carriages, a very great number; and sheep and 
oxen and goats without number for their provision." 

Judith, Chap. 2-18: "And plenty of victual for every 
man of the army, and very much gold and silver out of the 
king's house." 

Judith, Chap. 2-19: "Then he went forth and all his 
power to go before King Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, 



JUDITH DESTROYS HOLOFERNES. 221 

and to cover all the face of earth westward with their 
chariots, and horsemen, and their chosen footmen." 

Judith, Chap. 2-20: "A great number also of sundry 
countries came wich them like locusts, and like the sand of 
the earth; for the multitude was without number." 

* Sands of the earth refers to the people of Europe, and 
their institutions. We have adopted the European mon- 
etary system, of which contracted currency is the crown- 
ing iniquity, and as a result are suffering many of the 
evils of Europe. "And they went forth of Nineve three 
days' journey." The word Nineve means handsome, or 
agreeable, and their going forth three days' journey is 
their going tnree years from prosperity, or prosperous 
times. 

Judith, Chap. 2-21 : "And they went forth of Nineve 
three days' journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and 
pitched from Bectileth near the mountain, which is at the 
left hand of the upper Cilicia." 

Judith, Chap. 2-22: "Then he took all of his army, 
his footmen, and horsemen, and chariots, and went from 
thence into the hill country." 

Judith, Chap. 2-23: "And destroyed Phud and Lud, 
and spoiled all the children of Rasses, and the children of 
Ismael, which were toward the wilderness at the south of 
the land of the Chellians." 

Judith, Chap. 2-24: "Then he went over Euphrates, 
and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the 
high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, till ye come 
to the sea." 

Judith, Chap. 2-25: "And he took the borders of 
Cilioia, and killed all that resisted" him, and came to the 
borders of Japheth, which were toward the south, over 
against Arabia." 

Judith, Chap. 2-26: "He compassed also all the chil- 
dren of Madian, and burned up their tabernacles, and 
spoiled their sheepcotes." 

Judith, Chap. 2-27: "Then 'he went down into the 
plain of Damascus in the time of wheat harvest, and burnt 
up all their fields, and destroyed their flocks and herds; 
also he spoiled their cities and utterly wasted their coun- 



222 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

tries, and smote all their young men with the edge of the 
sword." 

Judith, Chap. 2-28: "Therefore the fear and dread of 
hi-m fell upon all the inhabitants of the sea coasts, which 
were in Sidon and Tyrus, and them that dwelt in Sur and 
Ocina, and all that dwelt in Jemnaan; and they that dwelt 
in Azotus and Ascalon feared him greatly." 

This means that the young industries were ruined and 
the price of grain, wool, and other products were lowered 
or taken away and became naught. Damascus is used 
here as a symbol of America, because it is in a very fertile 
valley. 

Judith, Chap. 3-1: "So they sent ambassadors unto 
him to treat of peace, saying," 

Judith, Chap. 3-2: "Behold, we the servants of 
Nabuchodonosor, the great king, lie before thee; use us 
as shall be good in thy sight." 

Judith, Chap. 3-3: "Behold, our houses and all our 
places, and all our fields of wheat, and flocks, and herds, 
and all the lodges of our tents, lie before thy face; use 
them as it pleaseth thee." 

Judith, Chap. 3-4: "Behold, even our cities and the 
inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with 
them as seemeth good unto thee." 

Judith, Chap. 3-5: "So the men came to Holofernes, 
and declared unto him after this manner." 

"Judith, Chap. 3-6: "Then came he down toward 
the coast, both he and his army, and set garrisons in the 
high cities, and took out of them chosen men for aid." 

The garrisons set in the high cities are the banks, 
trusts and all other cor-porations advocating a contracted 
medium of exchange. The chosen men took out of them 
for aid are the great political newspapers, which could not 
exist without aiding the present administration, and tne 
present administration would not have been there to aid, 
without the will of the masters, of both the chosen men 
(newspapers) and the administration. 

Judith, Chap. 3-7: "So they and all the country 
round about received them with garlands, with dances, 
and with timbrels." 

Judith. Chap, 3-8: ."Yet he did cast down their fron- 



JUDITH DESTROYS HOLOFERNES. 223 

tiers, and cut down their groves; for he had decreed to de- 
stroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should wor- 
ship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes 
should call upon him as god." 

Judith, Chap. 3-9: "Also he came over against Es- 
draelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of 
Judea." 

Judith, Chap. 3-10: "And he pitched between Geba 
and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that 
he might gather together all the carriages of his army." 

Judith, Chap. 4-1 : "Now the children of Israel, that 
dwelt in Judea, heard that Holofernes, the chief captain of 
Nabuchodonosor, King of the Assyrians, had done to the 
nations, and after what manner he had spoiled all their 
temples, and brought them to naught." 

Judith, Chap. 4-2: "Therefore they were exceedingly 
afraid of him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for 
the temple of the Lord their God." 

Judith, Chap. 4-3 : "For they were newly returned 
from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were lately 
gathered together; and the vessels, and the altar, and the 
house, were sanctified after the profanation." 

Judith, Chap. 4-4: "Therefore they sent into all the 
coasts of Samaria, and the villages, and to Bethoron, and 
Belmen, and Jericho, and to Choba, and Esora, and to the 
valley of Salem." 

Judith, Chap. 4-5: "And possessed themselves be- 
forehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and forti- 
fied the villages that were in them, and laid up victuals for 
the provision of war; for their fields were of late reaped." 

Judith, Chap. 5-1 : "Then was it declared to Hol- 
ofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assur, that the 
children of Israel had prepared for war, and had shut up 
the passages of the hill country, and had fortified all the 
tops of the high hills, and had laid impediments in the 
champaign countries." 

Judith, Chap. 5-2: "Wherewith he was very angry, 
and called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of 
Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast." 

Judith, Chap. 5-3: "And he said unto them, tell me 
now, ye sons of Chanaan, who this people is, that dwelleth 



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in the hill country, and what are the cities that they in- 
habit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein 
is their power and strength, and what king is set over 
them, or captain of their army?" 

Judith, Chap. 5-4: "And why have they determined 
not to come and meet me, more that all the inhabitants of 
the west?" 



. Achior's Description of Israel (United States.) 

Apocrypha. Judith, Chap. 5-5: "Then said Achior 
(trouble), the captain of all the sons of Amnion (son of my 
people), let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of 
thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth con- 
cerning this people which dwelleth near thee, and in- 
habiteth the hill countries; and there shall no lie come out 
of the mouth of thy servant." 

6. "This people are descended of the Chaldeans." 

7. "And they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia, 
because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, 
which were in the land of Chaldea." 

8. "For they left the way of their ancestors, and wor- 
shipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew; 
so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and 
they fled into Mesopotamia and sojourned there many' 
days." 

9. "Then their God commanded them to depart from 
the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of 
Chanaan, where they dwelt and were increased with gold 
and silver, and with very much cattle." 

10. "But when a famine covered all the land of 
Chanaan, they went down into Egypt, and sojourned 
there," while they were nourished, and became there a 
great multitude, so that one could not number their na- 
tion." 

"And are come up from the p'lace where they were 
scattered." Come up, and go up, are used by the prophets, 
almost in every instance, when speaking of heaven, and 
they mean the United States, for the heaven they say so 
much about will not answer for that celestial or spiritual 
place, supposed to be somewhere on the other side of the 
supposed purgatory. In the majority of instances, where 
the heaven is used by the prophets it cannot be spiritual- 
ized. "Seated in the hill country, for it was desolate." The 

225 



226 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Bible and all history do not record the desolation of Pales- 
tine, and America will answer to that desolate place, as it 
was without a civilization. Also the hill country will, as 
the civil states' governments of Israel, or of God's people, 
nearly always are called the mountains, or my mountains, 
as, "I will call for a sword throughout all of my moun- 
tains." 

». II, Esdras, Chap. 13-39: "And whereas thou sawest 
that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him." 

40. "Those are the ten tribes, which were carried 
away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea, 
the King, whom Salmanasar, the King of Assyria, led 
away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so 
they came into another land." 

41. "B'ut they took this counsel among themselves, 
that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go 
forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt." 

Long before this captivity the ten tribes had separated 
from the house of Judah, in the time of Jeroboam and 
Rehobohm, and the ten tribes created the kingdom of 
Israel on the north of Judah, and remained there until 
their captivity by Salmanasar, king of Assyria; their re- 
turn is not recorded in any of the scriptures, excepting to 
this place which was desolate by the peaceable multitude 
mentioned by Esdras, second book, Chap. 13, verse 39. 
Some of the prophets call it the land that was always 
waste. 

Ezekiel, (Chap. 34-13: "And I will bring them out 
from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and 
will bring thom to their own land ; and I will feed them 
upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in 
the inhabited places of the country." 

14: "I will feed them with good pasture and upon 
the mountainis of the height of Israel shall their fold be; 
there shall they He down in the good fold, and on fat pas- 
ture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel." 

TI. Esdras, Ghap. 13-42: "That they might there 
keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own 
land." 



ACHIOR'S DESCRIPTION OF ISRAEL. 227 

43. "And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow 
passages of the river." 

These narrow passages of the river signify small 
streams of emigrants and the slow settlement of weak na- 
tions, as they moved on toward western Europe, and 
thence to America. 

44. "For the most high, then shewed signs for them, 
and held still the flood until they were passed over." 

45. "For fhrough that country there was a great way 
to go, namely, of a year and a half; and the same religion 
is called Arsareth." 

46. "Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and 
now when they shall begin to come." 

47. "The highest shall stay the spring's of the streams 
again that fhey may go through; therefore, sawest thou 
the multitude with peace." 

Achior, in the 15th verse, beginning with Judith, 5-5, 
gives an exact history of Israel from the time of the calling 
of Abraham until the ten tribes were scattered in captivity, 
and lost their identity in mingled blood, and at last re- 
turned to the hill country, the new Jerusalem, the Israel of 
America. 

11. "Therefore the King of Egypt rose up against 
them, and dealt subtilely with them, and brought them low 
with laboring in brick, and made them slaves." 

12. "Then they cried unto their God, and he smote 
all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues ; so the Egyp- 
tians cast them out of their sight." 

13. "And God dried the red sea before them." 

14. "And brought them to Mount Sina (the senna 
shrub) and Cades-'Barne, and cast forth all that dwelt in 
the wilderness." 

15. "So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites, and 
they destroyed by their strength all of them of Esebon 
(device) and passing over Jordan (descending) they pos- 
sessed all the hill country." 

16. "And they cast forth before them the Chanaanite 
(Canaanite), the Pherezite, the Jubusite, and the Sychem- 
ite, and the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that country 
many days." 

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228 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

they prospered, because the God that hateth iniquity was 
with them." 

i8. "But when they departed from the way which he 
appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very 
sore, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs, 
and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and 
their cities were taken by the enemies." 

19. "But now they are returned to their God, and are 
come up from the places where they were scattered, and 
have possessed Jerusalem (vision of peace), where their 
sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was 
desolate." 

This nineteenth verse will conform to the United 
States in almost every respect. A more exact description 
of the emigration and settlement of this country could not 
be given in so few words. 

Judith, Chap. 8-4: "So Judith was a widow in her 
house three years and four months." 

Judith, Chap. 10, 21-22: Now, Holofernes rested 
upon his bed under a canopy, which was woven with pur- 
ple and gold and emeralds and precious stones." 

22. "So they shewed him of her; and he came out 
before his tent with silver lamps going before him." 

Judith, Chap. 12, lo-ii: "And in the fourth day 
Holofernes made a feast to his own servants only, and 
called none of the officers to the banquet." 

II. "Then said he to Bagoas, the eunuch, who had 
charge over all that he had, go now, and persuade this 
Hebrew woman which is with thee, that she come unto 
us, and eat and drink with us." 

Judith, Chap. 12, 18-20: "So Judith said: I will 
drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me 
this day more than all the days since I was born." 

20. "And Holofernes took great delight in her and 
drank much more wine than he had drunk at any time in 

Judith, Chap. 13-4: •' * * * Then Judith, stand- 
ing by his (Holofernes) bed, said in her heart, O Lord 
God of all power, look at this present upon the works of 
mine hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem." 

5. "For now is the time to help thy inheritance, and 



JUDITH DESTROYS HOLOFERNES. 229 

to execute mine enterprises to the destruction of the ene- 
mies which are risen against us." 

6. "Then she came to the pillar of the bed, which 
was at Holofernes' head, and took down his faucliion from 
thence." 

7. "And approached to his bed, took hold of the hair 
of his head, and said, strengthen me, O Lord God of 
Israel, this day." 

8. "And she smote twice upon his neck with all her 
might, and s'he took away his head froim him." 

9. "And tumbled his body down from the bed, and 
pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and anon after 
she went forth, and gave Holofernes' head to her maid." 

While Holofernes (the money power) was sleeping, 
confident of victory, he was overthrown and destroyed by 
the people (Judith). 

■Judith, Chap. 16, 23-24-25: "But she (Judith) in- 
creased more and more in honour, and waxed old in her 
husband's house, being an hundred and five years old, 
and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia; and they 
buried her in the cave of her husband, Manasses." 

24. "And the 'house of Israel lamented her seven 
days, and before she died s'he did distribute her goods to 
all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasses, her 
husband, and to them that were nearest of her kindred." 

25. "And there was none that made the children of 
Israel any more afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long 
time after her death." 

In the year 1893, the mints of India closed to the free 
coinage of silver, and Russia decided to coin 100,000,000 
gold rubles, and further 'than this, there is record in Judith, 
Chap. 2-2, that at a secret council in 1893, it was concluded 
to afflict the whole earth (Europe). This council is re- 
corded no other place than in the Apocrypha, and that 
increases the secrecy, as it is read only by a few, and it is 
not reckoned among the Canonical Scriptures, yet that 
secret decision of plutocratic (Nabuchodonosor) to con- 
tract the currency of Europe, will be exposed along with 
the secret alliance between the American plutos and our 
Presidential administrations, of which has appeared, and 
been heard, in loud and plain language, in the halls of the 



230 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Senate and Congress since 1892; and the same alliances 
will continue until the mystery of God is finished, about 
the time that Judith beheads Holofernes. 

Daniel, Chap. 12-11: "And from the time that the 
continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and the 
abomination 'that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a 
thousand two hundred and ninety days." 

The continual burnt offerings were taken away in t-he 
year 602, and the abomination of desolation was set up 
("in the holy place where it ought not") 1290 days (years) 
after in the year 1892. 

iManasses, the husband of Judith, who dies in the bar- 
ley harvest, symbolizes the values of our Federal moneys, 
and his death symbolizes the destruction of the values of 
those Federal moneys, especially our silver medium of 
exchange by act of Congress in 1892. 

That act of Congress in 1892 was the abomination of 
desolation that was set up 1,290 years after the continual 
burnt offerings were taken away in the year 602. 

The abomination of desolation made Judith a widow 
in 1892. 

Judith was a widow three years and four months, 
when she went into the camp of Holofernes in 1895. And 
she remains in his camp until she is invited to the ban- 
quet for the servants of Flolofernes, which will happen 
in the year 1899. 

Judith, Chap. 13-1: "Now when the evening was 
come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut 
his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the pres- 
ence of his lord; and they went to their beds; for they were 
all weary, because the feast had been long." 

One of the two strokes may come when the United 
States re-constructs the volume and values of the Federal 
money by statute; that will discomfit the hosts of Na- 
buchodonosor (plutocracy), as there is not hard money 
(gold and silver) sufificient on the globe with which to 
liquidate the National, State, and individual indebtedness 
of the United States. Then with what, or when, will it be 
paid? It will be paid with strikes, insolvency, panics, and 
inevitable helpless repudiation. 

The European national debts and their great navies 



ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION. 231 

and standing armies, along with monarchy and a multitude 
of pensioned no'bility and many otiher 'things, too numer- 
ous to mention, all of which go to make up the great 
aggrgate of the amtitypical flood that is now upon the 
earth (Europe), which flood has nearly subsided and the 
Ark is resting by the alliances of the nations concerning 
the Turks. The alliance was typified by the Ark, which 
means covenant, resting on Mount Ararat in Armenia, 
Turkey. Mountain typifies a government. 

Noa;h and his family leaving the Ark (covenant) typi- 
fies the nations breaking their covenant, whic'h they have 
by allowing the Turkish butcheries in which the Turks 
have violated their former agreements with the nations of 
Europe. Thus Noah .has come out of the Ark (covenant) 
and planted his vineyard, and is drunken and naked, and 
his younger son, Ham, the father of Cain, which typifies 
the Turks, is making sport of -the nakedness of his father, 
which typifies the lethargy of the European nations in 
allowing the atrocities of the Turks in Armenia. 

Noah (allied Europe) will soon awake from his de- 
bauch; then he will know what his younger son (the 
Turks) has done unto him. 

Shem and Japheth have already spread the garment 
(covenant) over the nakedness of their father. They have 
kept their faces backward and have pretended t'hat they 
have not seen the nakedness of their father, which is Mo- 
hammedans butchering the Christians of Armenia, where 
the Ark (covenant) is resting. 

When European alliances are 'broken, then Noah 
will curse Canaan, the son of Ham, the offender, who svm- 
bolizes the Turkish Mahometan religion, which sprung 
from the Arabians. Cain, who slew his brother Abel be- 
fore the symbolic flood, was a type of the Arabs, as the city 
he built in the land of Nod and named it after his son 
Enoch, who symbolized the Turkish Ma'hometans, who 
are the offsprings of the Arabs of the land of Nod, on the 
east of Eden (Palestine). 

The Lord has already cursed Cain (Mahometans) 
and set a mark upon him long ago (even before the tra- 
ditional flood). The Lord says to Cain: "A fugitive and 



±32 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth" (Europe), and Cain 
complained, saying: "Whosoever findet'h me shall slay 
me." And the Lord said unto him: "Therefore, whoso- 
ever slayeth 'Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven- 
fold." (Seven great crusades went to slay Cain and all 
received the sevenfold vengeance.) The Mahometan 
(Turks) has been a fugitive and a wanderer (the Old 
Testament says a fugitive and a vagabond) in the earth 
(Europe) since they were created. At one time t'hey over- 
ran nearly all the best portions of Europe; yet as a wan- 
derer and a vagabond they seem to have had some special 
protection from the Almighty, up to the present time, and 
will until Noah awakes from his wine and curses them. 
Then they will become a "servant of servants" unto his 
brethren, who are the Shem and Japhet'hen families, the 
two oldest sons of Noah, who made their settlements in 
the northern parts of Europe soon after the traditional 
flood. 

Genesis, 9-18: "And the sons of Noah, who went 
forth of the Ark, were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and 
Ham is the father of Canaan. These three were the sons 
of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread." 

Here is proof that Europe, or the old Roman empire, 
constituted all the territory that the prophets call the 
earth, and world. The prophets say nothing of a globe 
and of its circularity, and, furthermore, they place all the 
families of Noah in their especial territories, that were 
divided unto, and, further than that, they use the ex- 
pression, "in the earth," instead of "on the earth," as in 
Genesis, 10-32: "These are the families of the sons of 
Noah, after their generations in their nations. And of 
these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood." 

Genesis, 11, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9: "All these things 
have yet to take place, as the flood is not yet past away. 
The whole earth (Europe) is of one language, meaning to 
do evil, and of one mind in all principal things. And 
thus, figuratively, the nations of Europe journey east, 
adopt eastern customs, and find a plain in the land of 
Shinar, and they will propose to one another to build the 
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven (United States). 

When heaven is mentioned by the prophets it sym- 



CAIN THE MAHOMETAN VAGABOND. 233 

bolizes the United States of Israel. Consequently, tlie 
tower that the nations of Europe will propose to build on 
the plain of Shinar will be something to affect the United 
States, as the monarchies of Europe are beginning to 
dread its influence and power 'more and more, as its in- 
fluence is rapidly advancing. Mark how they are to burn 
their brick to build the tower; burn them throughly in- 
stead of thoroughly, and they are to have slime for mortar 
and brick for stone, thus symbolizing the weakness of their 
building material. 

They that build the city and tower are called the 
"children of men," and man in prophecy always symbol- 
izes a nation, thus meaning the nations. 

Now mark the words: "Let us go down and there 
confound their language." Here the Almighty is the 
speaker. He says: "Let us." Us is plural; consequently 
he must mean some of his angels, and angels are literal 
agencies, chief of which is Michael, the archangel (chief 
angel) who always symbolizes the United States of Israel. 
Consequently, the United States will be the chief agency 
that will confound the purposes (language) of the nations 
of Europe (earth). 

A legend of the building of Babel is said to be in the 
British Museum among the Assyrian -tablets. That is 
not strange, as nearly all nations have a flood legend. 
There are several antiquated ruins that bear the tradi- 
tional name, Tower of Babel, and there is little doubt but 
there was at some time far back in the misty past some- 
thing of a prototype of the tower that is being built by the 
nations of Europe of slime and brick, instead of mortar 
and stone. 

Now let us conjecture for a moment and find some- 
thing in Europe that the Tower of Babel might symbolize 
in these later times. In the first place, these are the days 
of the Almighty's preparation; secondly, all Europe is 
laboring under an overwhelming debt. So mighty is this 
de"bt that some of the nations have not any hope of ever 
•paying any part except the interest, and all the nations are 
lying on their arms, and they are all afraid; all have dimin- 
ished their currency and they have many covenants ((alii- 



234 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ances), one with the other. In all of these things they 
differ one with the other so little that i/t is hardly per- 
ceptible; so in like manner they are of one language — one 
design. 

And from thence, did the Lord scatter them abroad 
upon the face of all the earth (Europe). Therefore was 
the name of it called Babel, -because the Lord did there 
confound the language of the earth (Europe). 

Now the city and the tower was not called Babel 
until the language of all the earth had been confounded, 
from that time it was to be called Babel. 

' The two oldest sons of Noah, Shem and Japheth 
(meaning the nations of Europe that are older than the 
Turkish) yet have their faces turned backward from the 
nakedness of their father (Noah), which symbolizes their 
non-interference with the Turks in regard to the Ar- 
menian horrors; yet, at the same time, they are building 
the city and tower with one mind and one purpose, that 
the top might reach unto heaven (United States) for the 
purpose of making a name for themselves that they may 
not be scattered upon the face of the earth (Europe). The 
nations fear something in their'midst, hence their great 
armaments and armies, and their covenants with each 
other, which symbolizes the Ark (covenant). The cove- 
nant is now resting on Mount Ararat (Turkish Armenia). 

Their covenants (language) will be broken. Then 
their city and tower will be called Babel, because they will 
disagree. 

Europe, the great syndicate of nations, symbolizes 
the city, and by their alliances they are building the tower; 
all of which will be confounded before they reach as far 
as heaven (United States). 

Their effort to reach heaven means that the Eu- 
ropean nations wall try to influence the United States to 
join them in forming an alliance. 

The tower, in one respect, symbolizes in its ascent 
towards heaven (United States) at the present time, 
March, 1897, the agitation of the international agreement 
for international bimetallism, but their tower will only 
ascend toward heaven far enough to complete their own 
destruction. 



THE TOWER OF BABEL. 235 

Let us not forget the nature of their material of which 
they are building the tower on the plains of Shinar, near 
the river Euphrates, the ancient territory of Babylonia, 
all of which symbolize the retrogradation of the great 
syndicate of Europe (earth) to the Babylonish institutions 
of antiquity. 

In the beginning of the tower they say: "Let us make 
brick and burn them throughly." And they had brick for 
stone and slime had they for mortar. 

They burn their brick throughly instead of thorough- 
ly, and they have brick instead of stone, and slime have 
they instead of mortar. See Genesis, Chap. 11, i to 10. 

Revelations, Chap. 14-6: "And I saw another angel 
(agency) flying in mid-heaven (in the midst of the United 
States) having an eternal gospel to proclaim unto them 
that dwell on the earth (Europe)." 

And unto every nation and tribe and tongue and peo- 
ple. — Chap. 14-8. And another, a second angel (agency) 
followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, which 
hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath 
of her fornication. 

John saw the two agencies in mid-heaven, the first 
having an eternal gospel to proclaim, the second was pro- 
claiming the fall of Babylon. 

The word heaven, throughout all the Scriptures, sym- 
bolizes the United States (which is Israel restored) both 
before and after our resurrection and transfiguration, con- 
sequently the two agencies are yet to come by the influ- 
ence of the United States. 

Now will the first agency proclaim the same old 
staggering theology of the past nineteen centuries? We 
believe not, as such would be repugnant to common 
sense. 

The old theology has nearly run its course, and has 
accomplished precisely that which the Almighty created 
it for. 

_ The first agency may come when the people of the 
United States become aware of their identity as the chil- 
dren of antitypical Israel; that knowledge of itself would 
be resurrection. Then how long before we would be 
transfigured, in nearly all of our ways? 



236 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

And another, a second agency, followed, saying: 
"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great." 

Thus great Babylon will fall when the United States 
confounds their one language, which is the united pur- 
pose of Europe to enslave the commonality of civilization. 

By their allied discriminating statutes regulating 
money values, greatly favoring all centralized systems, 
and the downfall of which is foretold in the- Apochrypha, 
Book of Judith. 

We believe the fall of Babylon, the confusion of 
tongues at the time of Babel, and the beheading of Holo- 
fernes, the chief captain of all the hosts of Nabuchodono- 
sor, who reigned in Nineve, by the hand of Judith, all sym- 
bolize the same literal event, which is the fall of centraliz- 
ed capital in Europe (earth) and the destruction of all the 
monarchies of Europe. 

Judith Goes as a Spy to the Camp of Holqfornes. 

What Judith says before she goes to decapitate the 
chief captain of Nabuchodonosor. Judith, 8-32: "Then 
said Judith unto them. Hear me, and I will do a thing 
that which shall go through all generations to the chil- 
dren of our nation." 

Some things that Judith says to Holofernes after en- 
tering his camp: Judith, 11-14: "For they have sent some 
to Jerusalem because they also that dwell there have 
done the like, to bring them a license from the Senate." 
Europe will look for the United States Senate to enact 
something favorable to plutocracy. Judith, 11-15: 
"Now when they shall bring them word they will forth- 
with do it, and they shall be given thee to be destroyed the 
same day."' 

Judith, 11-16: "Wherefore I, thine handmaid, know- 
ing all this, am fled from their presence; and God hath 
sent me to work things with thee, whereat all the earth 
shall be astonished, and whosoever shall hear it." 

Judith, 12-7: . . . "Thus she abode in the camp 
three days." 

Judith, 12-10: "And in the fourth day Holofernes 



HOLOFERNES LOSES HIS HEAD. 237 

made a feast to his own servants only, and called none of 
the officers to the banquet." 

On the fourth day of Judith's sojourn in the camp 
of the Assyrians, Holofernes, their chief captain, makes 
a feast and his own servants only are bidden to attend, 
and called none of the officers to the banquet. 

Judith, 12-11: "Then said he to Bagoas, the eunuch 
who had charge over all that he had, go now, and per- 
suade this Hebrew woman which is with thee, that she 
come unto us, and eat and drink with us." 

Now mark the peculiarity of the guests that are bid- 
ben to the banquet. It seems to be a banquet for ser- 
vants only; not even an officer received an invitation, yet 
after the servants are bidden, Holofernes sends his eu- 
nuch to persuade Judith the Hebrew woman, to attend, 
who gracefully accepts, and says she will speedily obey; 
but at the banquet Judith eats none of their victuals nor 
does she drink any of their wine. She partakes only of 
that which her own maid prepares for her, plainly 
showing that the United States will not adopt any of the 
things proposed by that international monetary congress. 

Judith, 12-15: "So she arose, and decked herself with 
her apparel and all her woman's attire, and her maid went 
and laid soft skins on the ground for her over against 
Holofernes, which she had received of Bagoas for her 
daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them." 

Judith, 12-16: "Now when Judith came in and sat 
down, Holofernes his heart was ravished with her, and his 
mind was moved, and he desired greatly her company; 
for he waited a time to deceive her, from the day he had 
seen her." 

Judith, 12-17: "Then said Holofernes unto her. Drink 
now, and be merry with us." 

Judith, 12-18: "So Judith said, I will drink now, my 
lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more 
than all the days since I was born." 

Judith, 12-19: "Then she took and ate and drank 
before him what her maid had prepared." 

Judith, 12-20: "And Holofernes took great delight 
in her, and drank much more wine than he had drunk at 
any time in one day since he was born." 



238 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Judith says that her Ufe is magnified in her more 
than all the days since she was born, showing that the two 
enactments by Congress, that were symbolized by the two 
strokes that severed the head from Holofernes, will be the 
most important and far-reaching of any enactment 
since the division and value of our money was regulated 
by statute (and called federal money) in the year 1792. 

The banquet especially for the servants of Holofernes, 
and where Judith, the Hebrew woman, is persuaded to 
take a part symbolizes the international monetary 
conference now being agitated in Congress; the Eu- 
ropean delegates to that conference, from the nature of 
the case, will be the servants of plutocratic Nabuchod- 
onosor (who are the slaves of monarchy and mammon). 
Judith being in their camp some time prior to 1896 
until the end of the feast of the servants symbolizes our 
contracted currency, being similar to that of Europe since 
that time. 

JuditJi's Introdzictio7i to Holofernes. 

Judith, 10-21: "Now Holofernes rested upon his bed 
under a canopy, which was v/oven with purple, and gold, 
and emeralds, and precious stones." 

Judith, 10-22: "So they shewed him of her; and he 
came out before his tent with silver lamps going before 
him." 

The silver lamps symbolize the silver problem that 
has shown before all Europe for years, or since 1871, 
when Germany degraded silver by adopting the single 
gold standard, of which nearly all nations of Europe have 
imitated. 

Judith, 13-1 : "Now when the evening was come, his 
servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent 
without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of 
his lord; and they went to their beds, for they were all 
weary, because the feast had been long." 

The feast being a long one symbolizes a long confer- 
ence; it lasts until the evening. We will conjecture the 
evening to symbolize the beginning of the great Euro- 
pean night of thick darkness, and trouble, that is fast ap- 
proaching, which is to tear down every kingdom of the 



BANQUET FOR THE SERVANTS. 239 

earth (Europe) and at that time our financial stress will 
become as a "night of thick darkness." 

Judith, 13-2: "And Judith was left alone in the tent, 
and Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was filled 
with wine." 

After the international monetary conference miscar- 
ries, which is symbolized by the servants going to 
their beds in the evening, and Judith being left 
alone avith Holofernes, symbolizes the two con- 
tracted currency systems, both European and American, 
which will be left confronting each other without the me- 
dium of a delegated congress, and about that time the 
financial condition of the United States will be alarming, 
for through the ponderous channels of syndicated capital, 
the substance of the commonality will with increasing 
rapidity continue to flow to the great corporated centers 
of the globe, until the little property left to the common- 
alty will be almost without a value, for lack of sufficient 
money to represent its value. 

And at the same time Holofernes, who symbolizes 
the confederated despotic money power of Europe, about 
that time will drink deeper and much more from his con- 
tracted golden standard wine than he had drunk at any 
one time in one day (year) since his birth. 

After the feast of servants Holofernes believes his 
golden clutch upon the commonalty to be invulnera- 
ble, so he is lying in a drunken stupor, upon his bed of 
piled up billions of supposed wealth; those vast billions 
do not consist of gold and silver coin, but in gold bonds 
and securities, which he believes to be equally as good, as 
they are payable in gold coin, both principal and interest. 
How strange! as there is scarcely gold coin upon the 
globe to pay the interest for one year only. 

The possessors of these vast billions of supposed wealth 
have strong cords upon the majority of the legislators 
and executives, and upon the press, of both Europe and 
America, and the same power has the legions of Europe 
all equipped, drilled, and lying upon their arms, for the 
sole purpose of protecting royalty, nobility, and confeder- 
ated wealth. This condition of affairs has been gradually 



240 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ensnaring its carrion claws upon the commonalty while 
the demon royalty and shoddy aristocracy are persuading 
the masses that these vast armies and armaments are to 
protect the honor of the nations, and for the safety of 
common humanity. 

Now let the reader turn his attention to the overtaxed 
and starving millions of British India; then turn to the 
great honors (?) that the allied nations of Europe are 
bringing upon themselves while standing still, well armed 
and equipped, almost in sight and hearing of those awful 
murders in Armenia, that are being telegraphed daily to 
all parts of the globe. 

Now turn to the honor and humanity of Spain in 
Cuba, and that of our nation in witnessing the imprison- 
ment and murder of her citizens by the Spaniards in 
Cuba. Thus plutocracy has strings upon all nations, and 
they do not dare to antagonize the interests of confeder- 
ated usury; though the commonalty be murdered and 
their property destroyed. * 

When the farce, sym'bolized by the feast of servants, 
is dismissed, then all nations will tremble more and bend 
lower before the golden .throne of their god, Nabu- 
chodonosor, than ever before, while throughout them 
poverty reigns in all its agonizing terror. 

Judith, 13-4: "So all went forth and none was left 
in the bedchamber, neither little nor great; then Juditli, 
standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all 
power, look at this present upon the works of mine hands 
for the exaltation of Jerusalem." 

These things happened immediately after the ser- 
vants make haste to depart after the banquet; even the 
waiters are all dismissed from tlie presence of the chief 
captain, meaning all those of the international monetary 
conference. 

Judith, 13-6: "Then she came to the pillar of the 
bed, which was at Holofernes' head, and took down his 
fanchion from thence." 

Judith, 13-7: "And approached to his bed, and took 
hold of the hair of his head, and said. Strengthen me, O 
Lord God of Israel, this day." 



BANQUET FOR THE SERVANTS. 241 

Judith, 13-8: "And she smote twice upon his i:eci< 
with all her might, and she took away his head from him." 

Judith, 13-9: "And tumbled his body down from the 
bed, and pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and 
anon after she went forth, and gave Holofernes' head to 
her maid." 

Judith, 13-10: "And she put it in her bag of meat: 
so the twain went together according to their custom unto 
prayer; and when they passed the camp, they compassed 
the valley, and went up the mountain of Bethulia, and 
came to the gates thereof." 

Judith, 13-1 1 : "Then said Judith afar off to the watch- 
man at the gate. Open, open now the gate; God, even our 
God, is with us to shew his power yet in Jerusalem, and 
his forces against the enemy, as he hath even done this 
day." 

The international monetary conference will end in 
the evening, the evening before the great European night, 
when the earth (Europe) will, according to 

Isaiah, 24, 20: "The earth shall stagger like a drunk- 
en man and shall be moved to and fro like a hut ; and the 
transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall 
fall, and not rise again." 

Isaiah, 24-21 : "And it shall come to pass in that day, 
that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones on 
high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth." 

Isaiah, 24-23: "Then the moon shall be confounded, 
and the sun ashamed ; for the Lord of hosts shall reign in 
Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and 'before his ancients 
gloriously." 

The earth in prophecy has always been supposed to 
mean the globe, but it does not mean the globe, any more 
than the heaven means the globe, as Isaiah says the earth 
shall fall and not rise again, and immediately after says 
the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion and in Jeru- 
salem and before his ancients gloriously; his ancients sym- 
bolize the people of the United States, who have beg.m to 
adopt his ancient Mosaic republican form of government. 
At the end of the international monetary conference, 
which is symbolized by the feast of servants, there will be 
nothing accomplished, as servants will not act against 



242 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

their masters who sent them. The American finances 
will grow worse and worse ; then will come the two strokes 
that will sever the head of Holofernes 'from his body; 
those strokes will be two enactments of some kind that 
will destroy financial Europe, and leave the finances of 
the United States in the ascendency. Those enactments 
will become the law of our land, at a time when all 'he 
privileged classes of Europe are int6xicated with wealth 
and security^a drunken lethargy, caused by their sup- 
posed grip upon the financial globe. 

Judith, 14-17' "After he (Bagoas) went into the tent 
where Judith lodged; and when he found her not, he 
leaped out to the people, and cried:" 

Judith, 14-18: "These slaves have dealt treacherous- 
ly; one woman of the Hebrews hath brought shame up- 
on the house of King Nabuchodnosor; for, behold, Holo- 
fernes lieth upon the ground without a head." 

The Hebrew woman that will deal treacherously with 
the house of Nabuchodnosor symbolizes some enactment 
by the United States that will be detrimental to the 
finances of Europe, and at the same time putting ours 
upon a better foundation, as the Hebrews and the old 
Jewish temple symbolize the financial fabric of v?iviliza- 
tion. He came out to meet Judith with silver lamps going 
before him. The silver lamps may symbolize the advoca- 
cy of free silver by the monarchs of Europe to beguile the 
United States into adopting more of their European cus- 
toms, that their American harvest, of usury, may be 
further increased. 

Bagoas, the eunuch, symbolizes the journals, and 
other hirelings of monarchy and plutocracy, that will be 
first to discover the headless carcass of their master; then 
they will leap out to the people, and cry and rend their 
garments; that will be their last leap, as rent garments 
mean broken contracts, because monarchy and the great 
European monetary system will be broken, and can no 
longer subsidize them, and that will be their last leap, as 
they are non-producers; as the eunuch, they have no 
things of their own. 

Judith was a widow three vears and four months be- 



THE SILVER LAMPS. 243 

fore she goes to the camp of Holofernes; then she abides 
there three days (years) and on the fourth day (year) she 
is invited to the feast of servants; the four years prior to 
the banquet means that our federal money values will De 
similar to that of Europe, also four years prior to the be- 
heading of the European mdney values. It was a banquet 
for his servants only — Judith and Holofernes were the 
only ones there besides the servants. The feast lasted until 
the evening. The servants made haste to depart. The 
eunuch shut his tent without. Even the waiters were dis- 
missed, and they went to their beds. They were all 
weary. 

The feast had been long. Holofernes got drunk at 
the feast. Judith ate only what her maid had prepared. 
The feast was held in the tent of Holofernes. Holofernes 
is the chief captain of Nat^uchodonosor. Nabuchodonosor 
is King of all the earth (Europe). Now the only absolute 
King of all Europe is its great usury and banking system. 
On the 4th day of July, 1896, the United States was 120 
years old, and its allotted number of years was then ac- 
complished, and as Christ laid in the grave three days be- 
fore resurrection, and the son of man laid in the grave 
three years before his mission was accomplished, so in 
like manner will the United States lay in the grave three 
years from the 4th of July, 1896, until it is resurrected 
some time after the 4th of July, 1899, and we believe the 
feast of servants will last until that time ; and when Judith 
severs the head from the body of the chief captain of Na- 
buchodonosor, who is King of the whole earth (Europe), 
then will immediately com>e our resurrection and trans- 
figuration; and soon after ours will come the resurrection 
of tiie dead; dead nations of the earth (Europe). 

Judith. 1 5-1 : "And when they that were in the tents 
heard, they were astonished at the thing that was done." 

Judith, 15-2: "And fear and trembling fell upon them, 
so that there was no man that durst abide in the sight -.f 
his neighbor, but rushing out all together, they fled into 
every way of the plain, of the hill country.*' 

The decapitation of the monetary power of Europe is 
the destruction of the tower of Babel, their one language 



244 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

will be destroyed, as no man (nation) durst abide in the 
sight of his neighbors; then they are scattered into every 
way of the plain, of the hill country. 

Let us conjecture for a moment how the United 
States could sever the head from ofif the great European 
com'bine, that is founded upon billions of — what? Gold? 
No; but it ought to be, as gold is their standard; but they 
have made a sad mistake; they have their great tower 
founded upon paper, supposed to represent billions of 
gold dollars, both principal and interest, payable in gold 
coin. 

The two strokes that sever the head of Holofernes 
will arouse Noah from his wine, and he will curse Canaan, 
the son of Ham, which are the Turks. His kingdom 
will be divided and given to his brethren, and they shall 
become servant of servants unto them. Then the one de- 
sign, the one language, the tower of Babel, which is the 
great monetary combine of the earth (Europe) will be 
confounded and scattered from thence upon the face of 
all Europe. 

So in like manner are our colossal institutions, built 
with slime and brick, instead of mortar and stone; then 
of what value will they consist? They will be represent- 
ed chiefly upon paper, fit materials to upholster our old 
confederate cushions. 

Remember they had brick for stone and slime had 
they for mortar, to build the tower of Babel. 

Now those vast billions of bonded, gilt-edged securi- 
ties, . f which they are building the tower, will be paid, 
both principal and interest, in gold coin. As soon as the 
ants can overshadow the great Sierra Nevadas with their 
mounds, then will the tower of Babel be built up from the 
plains of Shinar, unto heaven, and remain there; then, 
and not until then, will slime and brick be held in as good 
repute for building material as that of mortar and stone, 
by those who tabernacle in heaven (United States). 



The Horrible Vision Appearing in the East. 

Mightiest of Earthquakes — Nakedness of JVoah, Which 
Means the Weakness of the European Nations — 
Chronology Imperfect Before Christ. 

In I. Corinthians Christ is called Adam the second, 
and in Revelation 3-14, he is called the beginning of the 
creation of God. 

The Scriptures afford a perfect chronology of the 
creation only in our era; the flood, the exodus, Abraham, 
Moses, Solomon, David, theiChiklren of Israel, their forty 
years' wandering in ithe wilderness, their crossing the 
river Jordan, the time of Joshua's rule, the fall of Jericho 
and numerous other incidents in connection can be found 
in regular order, since the time of Christ; and before 
Christ, chronologers have never agreed as to the time 
when these things took place. Usher's Chronologies, how- 
ever, are given precedence, generally, by the Bible pub- 
lishing companies. 

There are upwards of three hundred different epochs 
given of the creation by learned men, and the extremes of 
their variations reach many hundreds of years. About 
forty epochs alone are given to the deluge, varying to 
the extent of a thousand years. This all by the learned ; 
mostly men who stand before the world as high authori- 
ties. 

Our theory picks up all of the important dates since 
creation — since Christ, as he was the creation. The 
deluge, the children of Israel, and their exodus to Amer- 
ica, are all based on the prophecies that we find sacred; 
some O'f which, however, are not considered wort'hy of 
notice by the theologians of to-day. Some of these are 
erroneously called apocryphal, simply because they were 

245 



246 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

not canonized a few hundred years ago by the Christian 
church. That was at that time only a s>tep (by the great 
council of Nice) in advance of paganism, A. D. 325. The 
prophets appointed no one to 'carionize the Scriptures; 
therefore, they cannot be 'canonical, one part any more 
than another. Yet we find that 'these things were so or- 
dained by the Creator. We find also that when the 
prophets refer to the temple they mean a "political tem- 
iple" of the nation, the same as anything ecclesiastic is 
always referred to as a woman. 

The so-called canonical New Testament, and the so- 
called Apocrypha and Apocryphal New Testament and 
the Antiquities of Josephus were all given to man since 
Christ. And we find overwhelming proof that they were 
created especially for t^he Christian era. And further, that 
they were to be in obscurity for a period of time after they 
had been written. So were all the Scriptures before the 
Christian era; all were in obscurity ^before Christ. All 
records before Christ are imperfect, which fact goes to 
prove our position. 

All science that man possesses cannot produce a 
correct and satisfactory chronology of the time from the 
supposed creation, to the birth of Christ, as that creation 
was not, but existed only as sym'bols to symbolize time 
and events since the 'Christian era, as all things were 
created with Christ. All important events and all the 
things that were created by the Almighty in the begin- 
ning, when he created the heavens and the earth and all 
things therein, were not literal, 'but symbols to represent 
the literal creation of our era — since Christ. Man has 
failed to esta'blish the time of a creation and a deluge be- 
fore the Christian era; and we 'find that it is impossible to 
establish their epochs, as chronologers continue to dis- 
as^ree as they ever have concerning all things before 
Christ. The date of the birth of Christ is yet in doubt. 

The first creation began when God caused Genesis 
to 'be wriften. That book is a written constitution creating 
and governing the 'heavens and the earth — the heaven 
and earth meaning the old world and the new (the old 
Roman earth and the United States, the latter meaning 
the heaven). That creation consists only as we find it 



THE CRI'ATION OF SYMBOLS. 247 

in the Scriptures, written in symbols, as that creation did 
not create the universe and our globe at that time any 
more than the written constitution of the United States at 
the time it was written created the continent which- it was 
to govern. There is proof of this in Genesis, 1-4: "And 
let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and 
years." 

The term used here, "and let them be for signs," will 
only apply to something previous, meaning the things that 
had just been created. Thus plainly stating that the 
things created were to symbolize a creation. Then the 
first man, Adam, would only be a symbol of the second 
man, Adam, which could be 'no other than Christ, as the 
first dispensation of Adam was a symfcol of the second 
Adam, which is the present Christian era. 

As we have shown some things in our Christian era 
that were symlbolized 'by the t-hings that were created at 
the beginning, thus proving it was a symbolized creation 
of types and only existed in power and influence and in 
books and upon the material on which it was written, just 
the same as a written constitution of a society, syndicate, 
order, empire, nation or nationality, may exist; and above 
all, it exists simply because the Almighty created it for a 
purpose, and that will be fulfilled so that there will not be 
lacking a day, year, season or sign. 

The written constitution beginning with the book of 
Genesis has governed the heaven and the earth, not for a 
period of six thousand years, but only since they were 
created, as they have both been created since the begin- 
ning of our Christian era, for until Christ that Scriptural 
constitution had little power and less meaning; conse- 
quently the creation of the heaven and the earth did not 
begin until Christ was born, as he was the beginning of 
all that was written in the Scriptures concerning the crea- 
tion. 

The creation, aside from the material upon which its 
story was written, was entirely void, except, possibly, its 
moral teachings, until Christ was born; then it began, and 
the heaven and earth and the things that are therein have 
all been created since that time. The Scriptures were in 
use before Christ and served as good teachers of law and 



248 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

morality, but there was not an iota of that vast creation 
in existence until after the birth of Jesus Christ. 

The first man, Adam, symbolized the first nation and 
the first woman was a symbol of the first church, or the 
first ecclesiastical body, as she was made out of man, the 
first nation in prophecy. When Adam and Eve were mar- 
ried, or when the woman was brought to Adam, it sym- 
bolized 'the first marriage of church and state, and it seems 
that their marriage certificate was not as it should have 
been, and they were both ashamed of it. That certificate 
was symbolized 'by the aprons of fig leaves of the most 
flimsy texture. Then God announces their punishment, 
saying'to Eve (the church) that he would greatly multiply 
her sorrows and that in sorrow she should bring forth her 
children. See the sorrows of the reformation when her 
■children were born. And to Adam (the state), because 
thou hast heakened to thy wife (the church), cursed is the 
ground for thy sake ; in sorrow s^halt thou eat of it all the 
days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth. 
(See histories of the troubles that the nations have had 
with the churches.) 

And the man called his wife's name Eve, because 
she was 'the mother of all living. So the first church was 
the mother of all the churches, and all the light and all the 
good emanated from her (Eve), as the great Catholic 
•Church, and since she is the mother of all the churches, 
she is the mother of all living, as all churches teach eternal 
life, which they learned from her in the beginning. And 
to Eve he said: "Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and 
he shall rule over thee." (The monarch's of Europe have 
ruled over the churches of late.) Yet it is the desire of all 
the great churches to be united with the nations of the 
globe, and that desire of the churches can be seen by all 
history since the first church was created. 

The first union of church and state was not very 
strong, which fact was symbolized by the flimsy aprons 
of fig leaves, which Adam and Eve sewed together. Gar- 
ments O'f any nature are symibols of constitutions, govern- 
ing institutions of nationalities of some kind. The fig- 
leaf aprons signified the weakness of the first union of 
church and state. Genesis, 3-21: "And the Lord God 



SKINS OF BEASTS FOR CLOTHING. 249 

made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins and clothed 
them." These coats of skins symtooHzed the better con- 
stitutional garments that after a while they adopted (re- 
ceived from God), or the Almighty finally legalized their 
marriage contract, to ascertain extent, as skins make much 
better clothing .than fig leaves. 

Eve, the first woman created since Christ, and the 
flood came on the earth and all living creation will be 
drowned. But the Ark (covenant, or alliances of the 
nations) still rests in Armenia, Turkey. Abraham has 
been called out of Chaldea, lived in Canaan; Isaac and 
Jacob have been 'born; Joseph sold into Egypt; Jacob 
went into Egypt ; Moses brings the children of Israel out 
of Egypt, crosses the Red Sea, wanders in the wilderness 
forty years— less one month— then he dies; then Joshua 
conducts them (children of Israel) over the River Jordan 
while the water (politics of the nations) stand up in a heap. 
Then the walls of Jericho fall after seven days (meaning 
seven years). The falling of the walls of Jericho symbolize 
the revolution of 1776- 1783, the independence of Israel. 

Josephus tells us that Joshua ruled the people for 
twenty-five years, until the judiciary of Israel was re- 
formed and the judges increased to five in number, with 
twenty-three districts, in the year 1801 A. D. _ These 
things are a very small portion of that great creation, yet 
they were all created since the Christian era began. 

It is possible that these things all had their prototype 
before the Christian era, but there is little proof of these 
being anything more than their symibols written in the 
scriptures before that time. We will g-ive a little proof of 
the latter: Matthew, 2-14: "And he arose and took the 
young child and his mother by night and departed into 
Egypt and was there until the death of Herod, that it 
might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord through 
the prophet, saying out of Egypt did I call my son." 

Thus it seems that Christ was sent into Egypt for the 
express purpose of making good his words that he had 
formerly spoken through the prophet ; and there are many 
similar references in the New Testament, and they are the 
expositors of the old. The Creator caused many things 
to happen since our era to fulfill the words spoken by him 



250 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

through the prophets before that time. So in hke iman- 
ner could he 'have spoken the whole story of the creation 
through the prophets, as all things are possible with the 
Creator. 

If the Scriptural account of the creation mentioned in 
Genesis were a literal creation, then what was the object 
in symbolizing a second creation? And if there were a 
literal flood before Christ, then why was it a prototype of 
a political flood after him? Yet, many tribes and nations 
were found with traditions of a flood and no two of them 
ever agreed as to dates. 

We will again refer to Josephus' Antiquities: 'Book 
I., 3, 3-4: "These years collected together make up the 
sum 'before set down (he means the sum of the com- 
bined ages of the seven antediluvian patriarchs, which 
amounts to 5,879 years); but let no one inquire into the 
deaths of these men, for they extended their lives all along, 
together with their children and grandchildren, but let 
him have regard to 'their births only." 

Now Josephus here seems to mean that their 'com- 
bined ages, though given, were not to be used in all cases, 
an^ is proof of their symlbolic meaning, but that we are to 
have regard for their 'births only. 

Adam begat Seth in his 230t'h year 

Seth begat Enoch in his 250th year 

Enoch begat Cainan in his 190th year 

Cainan 'begat Mahalaleel in his 170th year 

Mahalaleel begat Jared in his i65t'h year 

Jared begat Enoch in his i62d year 

Enoch begat Mathuselah in his 165th year 

Mathuseia begat Lamech in his '.87th year 

Lamech begat Noah in his . '. _ i82d year 



1,656 ' 
These years make a total oif 1,656, the sum before 
set down, and is the number of years that Josephus says 
wi:re from Adam, the first man (Christ), and the time is 
written down in our sacred books. By this, Josephus 
mear ? the record since 'Christ. As we have said before, 
Josephus was an American historian; by this we mean 
that the works of Josephus were written from an Ameri- 



THE CREATION OF SYMBOLS. 251 

can standpoim and that the things therein contained are 
inore in relation to the United States than all other na- 
tions combined. 

We will now compare a table of the births of the same 
patriarchs, given in the 5th chapter of Genesis: 

Adam begat Seth in his 130th year 

Seth begat Enoch in his 105th year 

Enoch begat Cainan in his 90th year 

Cainan 'begat Mahalaleel in his 70th year 

Mahalaleel begat Jared in his 65th year 

Jared begat Enoch in his r62d year 

Enoch begat Mathuselah in his 65th year 

Mathuselah begat Lamech in his 187th year 

Lamech fcegat Noah in his i82d year 

1,056 
And Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japheth in 

his 500th year 

To make this equal to that of Josephus 

we will add 100 years 

extra for Noah to build the Ark, as Noah was 

600 years old at the time of the iiood. 

1,656 

Josephus handles these patriaichs and their ages in 
this manner simply because they are not men but symbols, 
and each of their births represent an interval of time since 
the Christian era. This is evident from what he says of 
the number of years that each lived after their first born. 
Of that he speaks in this way : "But let no one inquire into 
the deaths of these men, for they extended their lives all 
along, together with their children and grandchildren; 
but let him have regard to their births only." 

In some respects his (Josephus') sacred history has 
no small resemblance of having been the work of an 
American. With the exception of the Greek names he 
gives to modern things (and he acknowledges that he has 
done so without giving any particular reason) is the chief 
reason its divinity has never been suspected. Those Greek 
names are in part the veil that has kept sacred history in 
obscurity until such a time as the Creator intended it for 



252 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

the use of Israel (the United States). The works of Jose- 
phtis are divifie and were caused to be written by the 
Creator, as their numeral and symbolic magnitude puts 
their construction and compilation far beyond anything 
that humanity is, or ever has been, able to imitate ; and we 
believe the Creator will in the near future give to man 
wisdom with which to interpret them so that their divinity 
will be beyond doubt in the minds of all civilized mankind. 

Upon the loth day of the first month (April 30th, ac- 
cording to present calendar reckoning) the Israelites un- 
der Joshua, a type of Christ, go up out of the river Jordan 
into Canaan, a type of more heavenly country. They 
pass through the river Jordan on dry ground, the waters 
being divided. 

As everything created at the general creation in the 
beginning of which an account is given, Genesis i, is to 
be used to interpret the Scriptures as all that creation was 
to be (Genesis 1-14: "And let themibe for signs and for sea- 
sons and for days and for years") for symbols, as in the 
case of Israel going through Jordan on dry land, the 
waters being divided. 

As the Sea, the waters and the great deep are all sym- 
bols of national politics, "and the waters being divided" 
means the political controversy in Europe the same as the 
"crossing of Jordan" symbolized our war of independence 
which aided the Colonists against the mother country. It 
was principally France. Holland and Spain which aided 
the Israelites. The waters being divided and standing up 
in a heap symbolized the nations of Europe standing up 
together in favor of the independence of the American 
Israel. Thus God made them instruments to fulfill his 
symbolized prophecies. The son of man came as a thief 
at night, as predicted, and he came on the war clouds of 
heaven in 1859. That would have been impossible if the 
first creation of the heaven and earth, Adam and Eve and 
all things named in that creation had been a literal crea- 
tion. 

In a like manner they gave a symbolized history of 
the great flood, which is not yet entnely over. The dates 
of the creation, the flood, and numerous other dates, are 
all symbolized memorandas. They all start from a sym- 



THE GRAND EMBARKATION. 253 

bol and end with something that is literal. As the great 
antitypical Israelites have been traced from the Cromwel- 
lian Parliaments in the year 1656, that Moses typified 
when he was born, then the spirit of democracy had lived 
in these parliaments for a period of eighty years. Then 
the spirit that Moses symbolized conducted the cele- 
brated mystic three hundred Israelites to the wilderness 
of America, eighty years after 1656, the year Cromwell 
refused a crown. 

Thus the Parliament was symbolized by the Mosaic 
Democracy. Then the antitypical exodus took place in 
the 80th year of the life of Moses. Eighty years added 
to 1656 make 1736, the time when the three hundred emi- 
grants (known when they left England as the grand em- 
barkation) landed at Savannah, Georgia. As Moses was 
80 years old then, and lived to the age of 120 years, this 
time would allow him forty years to govern his people in 
the antitypical wilderness of America, until the time for 
crossing over Jordan, in the year 1776. Forty years from 
1736 — that was the river Moses was not allowed to cross 
over. Then Josephus says after the death of Moses, Josh- 
ua ruled the people for twenty-five years, which would be 
until the year 1801, the time when our judiciary was 
changed and the judges of the Supreme Court of the Uni- 
ted States were increased to five in number with six cir- 
cuits and twenty-three districts. 

The reader will observe that the son of man was pre- 
dicted by Christ, that he should come as a thief, and we 
have shown that he (the son of man) was born in the year 
1826, thus clearly showing that he was a righteous insti- 
tution instead of simply a person. Yet when it (righteous 
institution) was 33 years old it came to Harper's Ferry 
like a thief at night, headed by one John Brown. The 
fact of John Brown having been captain of the party that 
made the prophetical foray on Harper's Ferry does not 
constitute him to be the son of man. Yet he was the com- 
mander of the spirit which was born with the organization 
of the Home Missionary Society in 1826. No doubt many 
will ask why we call that society the son of man. We an- 
swer by saying that we do so by many numerical calcula- 
tions. The son of man came as a thief to Harper's Ferry 



254 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

and sufifered death in the year 1859, and Hke his prototype 
1,863 years before, rose again the third day (year) with 
power and great glory by the emancipation proclamation 
which freed millions of slaves in 1863. 

Jesus Christ was resurrected on the third day, the son 
of man the third year (meaning the same as to time), the 
only difference there is is in the method of reckoning 
time at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ and the pres- 
ent time. The emancipation of 1863 was the resurrection 
of the son of man, three years after the crucifixion in 1859 
(the hanging of John Brown). The discrepancy of about 
four years in the birth of Christ is a part of the veil that is 
keeping the prophecies intentionally in obscurity. 

Seventy years after the birth of the son of man in 
1826, we calculate the antitypical siege of Jerusalem and 
the firing of the antitypical Jewish temple in 1896 
(financially and politically), when nearly 2,000,000 anti- 
typical Jews are to perish in battle and by famine. 
In battle means the financial struggle, and those who per- 
ish will be the victims of the financial failures which will 
occur before the present famishing conditions of our 
finances are restored to a basis of prosperity. Those that 
will be sent into slavery are those whose property is mort- 
gaged (and that class outrank all others) and they will 
be sold, and there will be no one to buy them. 

Those who perish in the present famished and finan- 
cial crisis were typified, according to Scripture, "by them 
that perished" in the siege of Jerusalem seventy-three 
years after Christ. The Jews symbolized our finances of 
to-day. The property of those who are mortgaged will 
be put up at foreclosure sales and the mortgage will be 
compelled to take it. That is what the prophets mean by 
saying that "they will be sold and that there will be no 
one to buy them." Foreclosure sales will be made, even 
it there be no one to buy. 

The sophist, free-thinker and all infidels have for the 
past 120 years been making inroads, as they call them, 
upon the present theory of the creation and upon the 
story of the deluge and the many miracles related to in 
the Scriptures, and it is said that they have puzzled the 



MIRACLES ARE HIEROGLYPHS. 255 

present theology. We find, and others can do likewise, 
that many of the miracles are the methods by which the 
Almighty chose to relate, or make known, to mankind in 
after-times the substance and literal fulfillment of some- 
thing on a greater plan. The miracles are the substance 
of the covering, the veil, that the prophets say will be re- 
moved from all people and all nations. 

It is possible that there never was a divine miracle 
performed in the sight of a human being, as the Almighty 
could have had them written in the Scriptures without. 
Our researches have led us to believe that miracles are 
Scriptural hieroglyphs and were not to be translated im- 
mediately after being given to man, as their translation no 
doubt will constitute a part of the strange work the proph- 
ets say the Almighty is going to perform. 

The history of the creation was not given to man until 
1491 B. C, when the law was given to Moses on Mount 
Sinai, and as Moses was educated at the palace of Pharoah 
it is almost certain that he could only read the hieroglyph- 
ic characters of the Egyptians, and that with the uncer- 
tainty of the dialect spoken by the Israelites at that time 
and the many changes their common dialect was subject- 
ed to in after years. Hence how easily all the miracles in 
all of their exactness could be compiled into the wonder- 
ful Scriptures that they have proven to be, and yet man 
has scarcely begun to comprehend the sublimity of their 
wonders. 

As we have said. Moses was born in the year 1656, 
and came out of antitypical Egypt (Europe) in 1736, and 
landed the Israelites in Savannah, Georgia, and governed 
them forty years in the wilderness — until 1776, the anti- 
typical Jordan that the antitypical Moses was not per- 
mitted to cross. Then Joshua ruled them for twenty-five 
years — until the year 1801, at which time the Supreme 
Court took from him his power. Moses died in 1776 at 
the age of 120 years. 

The taking of Jericho by Joshua symbolized the 
seven years of war for independence. "As the army and 
the priests (priests meaning officers) marched around the 
city every day for seven days, then the walls fell." This 



256 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

symbolized the seven years of war before independence 
came. 

Rahab, the harlot, typifies the Roman Catholic 
Church. "Her house being on the walls of Jericho." Ra- 
hab's house was built on the walls of Jericho in such a 
manner that she could protect the spies and let them down 
from the wall (by a scarlet cord) so they could go their 
way in safety. Rahab symbolizes the Catholic Church, 
and as the Catholic religion was not the established re- 
ligion of the English Colonies, consequently the house of 
Rahab was not in the city, but on the walls of it, thus 
symbolizing the church that was in a position to protect 
and aid our spies or ministers in Europe during the revo- 
lution for independence — from 1776 to 1783 — when the 
walls of Jericho fell, and peace was declared, and inde- 
pendence for the Americal Colonies gained. 

The house of Rahab was built upon the walls of 
Jericho, and Jericho symbolized the power of monarchy 
in the American Colonies, thus showing that the great 
Roman Catholic Church turned traitor to monarchy, 
whose walls she is built upon, and aided the colonists to 
gain their independence over monarchy during their 
seven years war, as the walls of Jericho fell after seven 
times — or after the Israelites had marched around the 
walls, for seven consecutive days, then Jericho's 
walls fell, which symbolized the fall of monarchy during 
the seven years' war for independence, from 1776 to 1783. 

Joshua, 6-22: "And Joshua said unto the two men 
that had spied out the land, Go into the harlot's house 
and bring out thence the woman and all that she hath as 
ye swear unto her." 

Joshua, 6-23: "And the young men (young States), 
the spies, went in and brought out Rahab and her father 
and her mother and her brother and all that she had, all 
her kindred (which means all churches), also they brought 
out and they set them without the camp of Israel." Now 
observe closely the words "camp of Israel" used here. 

As Rahab, the Catholic Church, and all churches 
with her were tolerated and protected, yet they were not 
constitutionally married to the state, hence they are to 
remain outside the camp of Israel. "Only the silver and 



MIRACLES ARE HIEROGLYPHS. 257 

the gold and the vessels of brass and of iron they put into 
the treasure of the house of the Lord" (the good influences 
of the churches). 

Joshua, 6-25: "But Rahab, the harlot, and her fath- 
er's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save 
alive." And she dwells in the midst of Israel unto this 
day on account of her having hidden the messengers 
Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. And so the Catholic 
Church is in the midst of the United States to-day. Ro- 
man-Catholic France, Spain and other European nations 
aided and protected our spies, or envoys, in Europe while 
there for aid at the time of the revolution against Jericho 
(England), as all Europe desired that England should 
lose her colonies and power, for it had seceded from the 
great mother church and was, and is still, called Protest- 
ant England, and yet the English Church is still called 
one of the daughters of the harlot by the prophets. 

There is nothing on the earth (Europe) that can fill 
the position of the mother of harlots except the great 
Roman 'Catholic Church, as she and her daughters are 
united by many marriages with many nationalities, and 
hence the name of harlot is applied to her in prophecy. 

Matthew, 1-5: "And Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab, 
and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jessie and 
Jessie begat Cavid, the King." Thus the preceding quo- 
tation goes to show that Christ was of the lineage of Ra- 
hab, the harlot, and of Ruth, the Moabite woman, and 
also of the widow of Uriah, the Hittite, who became the 
wife of King David, as Solomon was born of her. The 
Hittites were a people the IsraeHtes found in Canaan 
when they took possession of it. These incidents go to 
establish the fact that the blood of Israel was rapidly in- 
termingling with other blood. And as we have said be- 
fore, even the lineage of Christ was of a much mingled 
ancestry. And thus symbolized the antitypical blood of 
the great American Israel. 

Now these women whose blood was mingled with 
that of the lineage of Christ merely symbolized the dif- 
ferent churches, the influence of which went to create the 
abolitionist and other kindred societies, chief among 
which was the Home Missionary Society, which was or- 



258 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ganized in New York May loth, 1826. This society sym- 
bolized the birth of the son of man, by which event we 
are enabled to establish many prophetic dates. That was 
the influence which sent John Brown to Harper's Ferry 
in 1859 "as a thief in the night," that the prophecies might 
be fulfilled, as Christ was the spirit of prophecy. It was 
that same spirit which encouraged John Brown in the 
foray in the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. The same spirit 
made the emancipation proclamation pen of Lincoln pos- 
sible by having many thousands of swords behind it. That 
is the same spirit which was resurrected in 1863. 

"It was seen coming in the warclouds of heaven. It 
arose the third day (meaning year) with power and great 
glory." 

Seventy years after the birth of the son of man, which 
occurred May loth, 1826, the antitypical Romans, the 
fiery factions, that will fuse and burn and destroy the 
iniquitous money system and many other similar things 
which were typified by the ancient Jewish temple, the de- 
struction of which was foretold by Christ in the words 
that, "one stone would not be left upon another." 

The destruction of the great iniquitous antitypical 
temple will be as complete as that of its prototype 1,896 
years before. The destruction of this ternple began on 
the 27th day of July, 1896, when the Populist and Na- 
tional Silver parties convened in joint convention at St. 
Louis, Mo., and end®rsed the principles embodied in the 
Chicago platform of the reformed and silver wing of the 
Democratic party. Here is the language of Josephus in 
his account of that affair: Jewish war book, 6. 4-5: "At 
which time one of the soldiers, without staying for orders 
(the Populists also nominated Bryan without awaiting his 
orders), and withouc any concern or dread upon him at so 
great an undertaking, being hurried .on by a certain di- 
vine fury (which divine fury was exhaustively reported in 
all its details at the time), snatched somewhat out of the 
materials which were on fire, and being lifted up by an- 
other soldier, he set fire to a golden window through 
which there was a passage to the rooms that were round 
about the holy house on the north side of it." 

The Populists endorsed Bryan over the shoulders of 



GOLDEN WINDOW ON FIRE. 259 

the silver party, or were influenced and lifted up by that 
party, as the silverites had just endorsed Bryan, thus en- 
compassing the Southern and Western wing of the Dem- 
ocratic party; and the fire (meaning enthusiasm and deter- 
mination) which originated at the joint convintion will 
not be quenched until the last one of the iniquitous and 
infamous principles of our present monetary system is en- 
tirely consumed. 

The Wickedness of Man in the Earth — God Repents 
that He Created Hiin^ and Decrees His Destruction — 
7 he Earth'' s Territory in Prophecy^ Described — 
Noah'^s Drunken Debauch. 

Genesis, 6, 5-6-7: "And the Lord saw that the wick- 
edness of man was great in the earth, and that every im- 
agination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil con- 
tinually. And it repented the Lord that he made man on 
the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord 
said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the 
face of the ground; both man and beast and creeping- 
thing, and fowl of the air; for it repenteth me that I have 
made them." 

The wickedness of man in the earth, as above quoted, 
is symbolical, and means the wickedness of the nations of 
the earth (Europe), the same as man mentioned in the 
creation signifies a nation, and the same as the name 
"woman" in connection with the creation denotes a 
church. And the wickedness of man was great upon the 
earth, and the imagination of the thoughts of his heart 
was only evil continually; and God has determined to 
destroy man (nations), whom he has created, from the 
face of the earth (Europe) ; both man and beast. The 
beast spoken of signifies a despotic power of some na- 
ture, the same as a fanatical church, or combinaiion of a 
fanatical church and State. 

"And it repented the Lord that he made man on the 
earth, and it grieved him at his heart." 

The Lord has never said^that he repented and was 
grieved that he had made the human family or any part 
of it, because the word man does not mean a human be- 



26o ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ing, as the word man means a nation, and the man he 
made in the earth means nation or nations whom he made 
in Europe (the earth), and the man whom he is yet to 
destroy from the face of the earth are the nations of Eu- 
rope, whom he is immediately going to destroy, as all 
nations of Europe are politically, socially, and financially 
prepared for that event. See fifteenth chapter of II. Es- 
dras, as it gives the account of the beginning of the de- 
struction of Europe, of which the Armenian massacres, 
which are the horrible vision fro^m the east, is already the 
beginning of that awful event. It will be more terrible 
than ever has been or that ever will be since there was 
man (nation) upon the earth (Europe). 

"Both man and beast and creeping thing, and fowl 
of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them."' 

All the above things that the Lord is going to de- 
stroy are created with heaven and earth. See first chap- 
ter of Genesis, to the thirteenth verse. 

In the fourteenth verse he says, "And let them be 
for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years." The 
first heaven and the first earth were symbols. So were 
the things that were there and therein created. Is it not 
absurd to believe that the Almighty would repent of creat- 
ing the creeping things, beasts, and fowls? But all the 
things created with the first Adam were symbols and the 
literal things which they symbolized since Christ will be 
destroyed in the present coming resurrection, which is 
nearly at the door. Revelation, 21-1 : "And I saw a new 
heaven and new earth; for the first heaven and the first 
earth are passed away; and the sea is no more." 

Thus the heaven (United States) and the earth (Eu- 
rope) will politically pass away, and the sea will be no 
more. The sea, waters, and tlie great deep, always in 
prophecy, are political terms; hence the heaven and earth 
are to pass away politically, as there is to be no more sea, 
which means that when they are resurrected every vistige 
of their present political fabric will be no more. 

The symbolisms of the Scriptures are ceremonial, 
miraculous, and apparently spiritual, but they are uncon- 
ditionally political, and after the resurrection, the heavens. 



RESSURRECTION IS TRANSFIGURATION. 261 

which mean Israel of the United States, are to be political- 
ly eternal, and something that shall never pass away. 

Isaiah, 33-20: "Look upon Zion, the city of our sel- 
emnities; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet "habita- 
tion, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof 
shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords 
thereof be broken." 

II. Peter, 3-1 1: "Seeing that these things are to be 
dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all 
holy living and godliness, looking for and earnestly de- 
siring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which 
the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the ele- 
ments shall melt with fervent heat? But according to his 
promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, where- 
in dwelleth righteousness." 

The heavens are to be dissolved, the United States is 
beginning to fuse and will soon be dissolved, which mecns 
resurrection. Then will come that of the dead (Europe), 
but according to His promise we look for new heavens 
and a new earth. 

The earth is singular and the heavens are plural, as 
Christ said, "In my Father's house are many mansions; if 
it were not so I would have told you." And the kingdom 
of heaven was like unto a mustard seed planted, and be- 
came a great tree, so that it protected all. 

Revelation, 21-25: "And the nations shall walk 
amidst the light thereof" — then we will be a shining ex- 
ample for all nations — and the lamp thereof is the Lamb, 
meaning the spirit and testimony of Christ — " and the 
gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day" (for there 
shall be no night there). Night means an evil time, and 
we are assured by the prophets that the present is the last 
evil time we will have. "And the city hath no need of the 
sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it." The sun and 
moon symbolize our President and Vice President, whose 
great authority will be taken from them, as their power 
and office have became bargain and sale shops. Emi- 
grants are to be continually invited to our shores, as our 
gates are to be open both day and night, meaning in sun- 
shine or adversity. Then with us there will be no marry- 
ing or giving in marriage, thus meaning that we will 



262 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

have no alliances with any church, nation, people, or in- 
stitution, and we are to have no idols to worship, not even 
those of gold. 

The destruction of man (meaning the nations of Eu- 
rope) is near at hand, as the flood has come, and the Ark 
has rested in Armenia, Turkey, for a season. The Ark 
resting in Armenia symbolizes the alliances that the na- 
tions of Europe have made concerning Turkey. Noah's 
drunken debauch is not yet ended, and Ham has exposed 
the nakedness of his father. The Ark covenant (meaning 
■the alliances of the nations of Europe) which was symbol- 
ized by Shem and Japheth shouldering the garment and 
going backwards to cover the nakedness of Noah, their 
father. And they still keep their faces turned from the 
horrid massacres in Armenia, where the Ark is resting. 
The two elder sons of Noah, Shem and Japheth, symbolize 
all Europe, excepting the Turkish Mohammedan terri- 
tory, which was symbolized by Cain, and which it at pres- 
ent symbolized by Ham, as Cain typified Ham. Cain was 
a type of the Arabians on the east of Eden (Palestine), 
from which Ham, who typified the Mohammedan Turks, 
originated. 

At the present time both Shem and Japheth have their 
faces turned backwards and do not observe the wholesale 
slaughtering of the people of Armenia (drunkenness of 
Noah), as they have thrown the garment over the naked- 
ness of their father; and that garment which has been 
thrown over the Armenian butcheries, symbolizes the alli- 
ances which the nations of Europe have made, one with 
the other. 

This is the time when every man shall be afraid of 
his own life, as it were; this means that all nations of Eu- 
rope will be afraid of being absorbed by some other nation 
or nations, and it will be a time when the nations of tne 
earth will call for mountains and rocks to fall upon them 
and hide them from Him who sits on the throne; and the 
one who is to sit on the throne at the time of that awful 
trouble and bloody warfare is the old Mosaic democracy, 
which will be born again from the red republicanism of 
Europe. The mountains and rocks symbolize other gar- 



THE ARK, COVENANT, ALLIANCE. 263 

ments (other strong governments) that they will call to 
fall on them to hide (protect) them from the inevitable. 

"When Noah awoke from his wine and learned what 
his younger son had done unto him" (this younger son, 
Ham, is the Turkish 'Mohammedan division of the earth; 
it is the youngest, as it came into existence last) he said: 
"Cursed be Canaan" (Ham was the father of Canaan), 
which shows that the curse was to come in after years 
upon the Canaanites, the children of Ham. The awaken- 
ing of Noah from his wine will symbolize the waking up 
of Europe to the atrocities of the Turks in Armenia; and 
the curses that he pronounced upon his younger son, 
Ham, typifies what will be meted out to the Turks in that 
day of war and great trouble, and mightiest earthquake 
(political shaking) that there has been since there was 
man on the earth (meaning, since there was nations in 
Europe). 

The earth in prophecy embraces more territory than 
is geographically allowed to modern Europe, as it emx- 
braces all of the old Roman Empire, known as the Roman 
World, or earth; consequently it embraces nearly all of 
Mohammedanism, as the Romans ruled as far east into 
Asia as the conquest of Alexander the Great, and is now 
mostly 'Mohammedan (the Asiatic portion) and is in- 
cluded in the Hamatic, the younger son's division of the 
earth, as the earth (Europe) was divided among the three 
sons of Noa,h, and not the globe, as has heretofore at all 
times been supposed, and accepted by all theology; but 
we deny that the Scriptures teach, or can be applied to 
any such a theory. 

Noah has yet to awaken from his prophetic debauch, 
and when he does so, he will say: "Cursed be Canaan, a 
servant of servants, shall he be unto his brethren." 

Canaan being a son of Ham, signifies that when Shem 
and Jap'heth, the principal part of Europe, excepting 
Mohammedanism, comes down upon Turkey, and it is 
destroyed (nationally) then that which comes in place of 
Mohammedanism will serve Shem and Japheth's division 
of the earth; then God will enlarge Japheth and he shall 
dwell in the tents of Shem; this means that the northern 
part of Europe, where Japheth settled, will be enlarged, 



264 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED 

the addition comprising the territory to the south which 
was settled 'by Shem; and Canaan (Turkey) shall be the 
servant of the Japhethan portion of the European family 
that will then be extended over the Shemitic territory; 
■the Shemities seem to be their equals, yet the Hamites are 
to be their vassals. 

The younger son, the Turkish Mohammedans (Ham- 
ites) will continue to disregard the nakedness of their 
father (the rest of Europe) by their feasts of blood in 
Armenia, until all Europe (Noah) will awaken, then will 
come that time of trouble and that greatest of earthquakes, 
so mighty an earthquake, such as was not since there were 
men upon the earth (Europe), and the great city was di- 
vided into three parts and the cities of the nations fell. 
The great city means the great combination of Europe, 
which will be divided into three parts, and the cities of 
the nations falling means that the national governments 
of Europe will at the same time, as soon as Europe smites 
Cain, the son of Ham, which is the Turkish Moham- 
medans, then sevenfold vengeance will be taken upon 
them; yet Cain is subdued and becomes a servant to his 
older brethren. Nahum says that in the days of the Lord's 
preparation that the shield of his mighty men is made red, 
which means the red republicans, who will then be all pow- 
erful in Europe. 

Below we give the verses, 2y to 49, of the Apocrypha, 
n. Esdras, Chapter 15. It gives the account, of the hor- 
rible time that has already begun ; the horrible vision upon 
the great panorama began with the butcherings in Ar- 
menia, similar 'things supply the horrors for the European 
panorama until it becoimes the mightiest political, finan- 
cial and bloodiest earthquake that has ever been since 
there was a nation upon the old Roman territory, which 
includes all the territory conquered by Alexander the 
Great. 

Apocrypha, H. Esdras, Chap. 15, 27-50. — 27: 
"For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth, and 
ye shall remain in them; for God shall not deliver you, 
because ye have sinned against him." 

28. "Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance 
thereof from the east." 



HORRIBLE VISION APPEARING. 265 

20 "Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia 
shall come out with many chariots, and the multitude of 
them shall be carried as the wind upon the earth, that all 
they which hear them may fear and tremble." 

30 "Also the Carmanians raging m wrath shall go 
forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power 
shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste 
a portion of the Assyrians." 

31. "And then shall the dragons have the upper 
hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn 
themselves, conspiring together in great power to perse- 
cute them." , , ., 

32. "Then these shall be troubled, and keep silence 
through their power, and shall flee." 

33. "And from the land of the Assyrians shall the 
enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in 
their host shall be fear, and strife among their kings." 

34. "Behold clouds from the east and from the 
north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look 
upon, full of wrath and storm." 

35. "They shall smite one upon another, and they 
shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth, 
even their own star; and blood shall be from the sword 
unto the belly, ,, 

36. "And dung of men unto the camels hough. 

' 37. "And there shall be great fearfulness and trem- 
bling upon earth; and they that see the wrath shall be 
afraid, and trembHng shall come upon them." 

38. "And then shall there come great storms from 
the south, and from the north, and another part from the 
west." 

39. "And strong winds shall arise from the east, 
and shall open it; and the cloud which he raised up in 
wrath, and the star stirred to cause fear toward the east 
and west wind, shall be destroyed." 

40. "The great and mighty clouds shall be lifted up 
full of wrath, and the star, that they may make all the 
earth afraid, and them that dwell therein; and they shall 
pour out over every high and eminent place an horrible 
star." 

41. "Fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many 



266 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

waters, that all fields may be full, and all rivers, with the 
abundance of great w^aters." 

42. "And they shall break down the cities and walls, 
mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the 
meadows, and their corn." 

43. "And they shall go steadfastly unto Babylon, 
and make her afraid." 

44. "They shall come to her and besiege her, the 
star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her; then shall 
the dust and the smoke go up unto the heaven, and all 
they that be about her shall bewail her." 

45. "And they that remain under her shall do ser- 
vice unto them that have put her in fear." 

46. "And thou, Asia, that art partaker of the hope 
of Babylon, and art the glory of her person:" 

47. "Woe be unto thee, thou wretch, because thou 
hast made thyself like unto her; and hast decked thy 
daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory 
in thy lovers, which have always desired to commit whore- 
dom with thee." 

48. "Thou hast followed her that it hated in all her 
works and inventions; therefore saith God:" 

49. "I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, 
poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy 
houses with destruction and death." 

Deuteronomy, Chap. 28-52: "And he shall besiege 
thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come 
down wherein thou trustedst throughout all thy land; and 
he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy 
land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee." 

53. "And ihou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, 
the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the Lord 
thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness 
wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee." 

54. "The man that is tender among you and very 
delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother and to- 
ward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of 
his children which he hath remaining." 

55. "So that he will not give to any of them of the 
flesh of his children whom he shall eat because he hath 



HORRIBLE VISION APPEARING. 267 

nothing left him; in the siege and in the straitness where- 
with thine enemies shall straiten thee in all thy gates." 

56. "The tender and delicate women among you 
which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon 
the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall 
'be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her 
son and toward her daughter." 

57. "And toward her young one that conieth out 
from between her feet, and toward her children which she 
shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things se- 
cretly; in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine 
enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates." As at present the 
manufacturing and banking States are eating up the 
young producing states of our Union. 

This chapter is a review of Israel (United States) 
from its beginning until the siege in the years 1896-7-8-9, 
as the many blessings (?) of prosperity and the abundance 
of all the things of those years are enumerated; the trans- 
gressions, the siege and the many evils that would come 
upon us are enumerated, and they are in fact upon us at 
the present time in all of their degrading and oppressing 
forms. 

These curses are national, as well as personal, and 
aflfect the masses in every nation where plutocracy reigns. 

In verse 13 of the above chapter, it is said that we 
shall be the head, and not the tail, and that we shall be 
above and not below, and in verse 43, for transgression, 
there is a curse announced. Now, what strangers are 
within the United States who will get above us? We 
will tell you: His name is "Contracted Currency," and 
he is a foreigner by birth, and came from the earth (Eu- 
rope), and he is the most valiant son of the old God, Plu- 
to; this son became prominent in Germany in 187J by 
forcing the single gold standard upon that people, and in 
Belgium, by suspending standard silver coinage in 1873, 
and in which year Germany went still further, by demon- 
etizing silver coins. 

In 1874 France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and 
Greece limited their silver coinage; in 1875 Italy sus- 
pended silver coinage; France did the same thing in 1876; 
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268 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ed the free coinage of the white metal in 1879; Egypt and 
Roumania adopted a gold standard in 1880; the mints of 
India closed to the free coinage of silver in 1893, Chile 
in 1895, and Costa Rica adopted the gold standard in 
1896. This money legislation in the above-named coun- 
tries was, and is now, a curse to the respective people of 
each country, or at least the masses of them, and hence 
in prophecy is called the Stranger, as he was not known 
upon the globe until about the year 1871. 

In 1 87 1 the leading nations of the globe began to 
contract their circulating moneys, and since that time 
the national debts of the globe have increased six billion 
dollars; so that the national debts of the nations up to 
January ist, 1897, were thirty billion dollars, and it is safe 
to assume that all other debts have increased even in a 
greater ratio. 

It is a well-known fact that mortgaged securities on 
agricultural lands have ceased to pass current in the 
world's market; consequently, the beginning of the end 
has come, as our silver is cast into the streets and our 
gold is growing dim. 

This Stranger made his advent on the civilized part 
of the globe about the year 1871, and is now to be found 
on it in many forms, which in substance amount to one 
and the same thing (curse), such as resumption of specie 
payments, contraction of the currency by adopting the 
infamous policy of the single gold standard, as against 
the inflation of the currency of the country to its former 
volume, as the bill to issue $382,000,000 in United States 
notes (bearing no interest) was vetoed in 1874, besides 
other well-known acts leading to contraction and ham- 
pering the national circulating medium, are patent, and 
are the direct outgrowth of the centralized money powers 
of the earth which have grown to gigantic proportions, 
rapidly, under discriminating legislation. 

"And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy 
high and fenced walls come down." Mark you, the words 
used in this quotation, and especially the words, "all thy 
gates and all thy walls;" now this money power is the only 
power that could attack all and throw all the walls down 
at the same time. The walls and gates spoken of are not 



HORRIBLE VISION APPEARING. 269 

literal, but are only used to symbolize the free entrance 
into our strongest institutions, of that foreign stranger 
from the earth (Europe). 

"So that the man that is tender among you and very 
delicate, his eye shall be evil toward brother and to- 
ward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of 
his children which he hath remaining;" this symbolizes 
the separation of the older States (politically) from the 
younger — the Western States — called in prophecy their 
children; then again it will apply to the colonies of the 
nations that will be affected, by their parent government, 

"So that he will not give to any of them the flesh of 
his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing 
left him; in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine 
enemy shall straiten thee in all thy gates." Part of the 
prophecy will apply to Spain and her young one, Cuba, 
coming out from between her (Spain's) feet at the p; esent 
time. 



Cain, the Son of Ham, the European Vagabond. 

The Reasons Why There Will Be a Great Change hi 
Israel (^Government of the United States) and Also 
on the Earth (^Europe) Soon^ Beginning- in i8g6-y ; 
and Why the United States Is the Israel Spoken of by 
the Prophets. 

Antiquities, Book i, 2-3. Josephus says of the flood: 
"This flood began on the 27th (27th) day of the aforemen- 
tioned month (Dius or Marhesren), and this was 2656, then 
immediately encloses (1556) thus. This last date is just 
1,100 years earlier than the second Noah's flood began. 
We mean the flood or floods of the Christian era. Then Jo- 
sephus gives the ages of the nine antediluvian patriarchs at 
the birth of their first-born son, and the 600th year of 
Noah's, which is 600 years too much, as he adds an extra 
100 years to six of them. As Josephus' works are all sym- 
bols, we will have to use the 600 extra years to make tlie 
antitypical Noah which is symbolized by the first Noah, 
the same as the first Adam symbolized the second Adam 
(Christ). The combined ages of the nine patriarchs is 
1,056 years, then by adding to this Noah's age we have 
1,656. 

A table and a more explicit account of the flood will 
be given in another portion of this volume, but before 
passing the subject by at this time we desire to be under- 
stood that the word flood as used in the Scriptures signi- 
fies politics the same as the word water, or waters, does. 

Josephus says that these years collected together 
make up the sum before set down. "But let no one in- 
quire into the death of these men, for they extended tlieir 
lives all along, together with their children and grandchil- 
dren, but let him have regard for their births only." 

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CAIN THE EUROPEAN VAGABOND. 271 

These patriarchs all symbolize nationalities of some 
kind since the beginning of the Christian era. The 
prophets seldom speak of individuals. "They all speak 
unto the nations, and they speak of them as men." A 
church, according to our view, as spoken of in the Bible, 
means woman, and a despotic and pagan nation signifies 
a beast; as Josephus says, "In that day there will be no 
bear circling round the pole" — meaning Russia, as that 
part of the globe is near the north pole, thus distinguish- 
ing the beast nations, and their destruction. 

i hen, again, speaking of the life of Terah in Antiqui- 
ties, book I, 6-5: "For the life of man was already by de- 
grees diminished and became shorter than before, till tne 
birth of Moses, after whom the term of human life was 120 
years, God determining it to the length of time that Moses 
happened to live." 

Antiquities, Book i, 3-2: "Now God loved this man 
(Noah) for his righteousness, yet he not only condemned 
those other men for their wickedness, but determined to de- 
stroy the whole race of mankind (nations), and to make 
another race that should be pure from wickedness, and 
cutting short their lives, and making their years not so 
many as they formerly lived, but 120 years only." 

He turned the dry land into sea (politics), and thus 
were all these men destroyed (meaning nations that were 
destroyed) ; now this does not signify that the people will 
be destroyed, but the nations of Europe; (the earth), 
meaning all the nationalities, or forms of government in 
Europe, and that destruction is yet to be sent, as the ark 
is still resting in Armenia (meaning the Eastern question 
at issue in Europe), Turkey; yet many of the people 
may be destroyed in the great revolution which will ac- 
complish the destruction of their present national govern- 
ments, and those who doubt now will not have long to 
doubt, as the great revolution will soon begin. 

God determined to destroy the whole race of man- 
kind; here all the nations upon the earth (Europe) are 
meant. Then the lives of the nations would be shortened, 
and they would only live after the time of Moses — to the 
number of years that Moses happened to live. Moses 
lived 120 years, less one month, consequently our disso- 



272 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

lution began in July, 1896. In prophecy our nation from 
1896 is reckoned among the dead, and will be until it is 
resurrected. Moses was born in the year 1656 after the 
birth of Christ, and the birth of our nation was the death 
of Moses. Moses symbolized the old colonial democracy 
that gave place to that of the United States. As the chil- 
dren of Israel were seven years marching around the 
walls of Jericho, from 1776 to 1783, so may our present 
resurrection last for about that length of time. Then we 
have some evidence that the seven years' reign of anti- 
Christ began with the administration of Cleveland in the 
year 1893, ^"^ will continue for about seven years, and in 
the midst of that week of seven years, the abomination of 
desolation was to be set up; it was to stand in the holy 
place where it ought not. 

Daniel, 12-1 1 : "And from the time that the continual 
burnt offering shall be taken away, and the abomination 
that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand 
two hundred and ninety days." 

The continual burnt offerings were taken away in 
the year 602, by Pocus, and 1,290 added would make the 
desolation begin in the year 1892. 

The following are the ages of the seven antediluvian 
patriarchs: Adam, 930 years; Seth, 912; Enos, 905; Cai- 
nan, 910; 'Mahalaleel, 895; Jared, 962; Enoch, 365; and 
their ages combined would make 5,879 years; now each of 
the above numbers, which are given to represent ages of 
these men, are symbols of a period of time equal to their 
respective ages, only. 

The ages of men (the nations) after iMoses, was to be 
120 years; and by adding 120 years to 5,879 years, we 
have a total of 5,999 years, which brings us to the year 
1896, in the present era; there are many Scriptural dates 
pointing to this date — the one given above. Then this is 
the only nation after Moses, as the death of Moses was 
the birth of the United States (Israel), in the year 1776, 
the 1 20th year of Moses, as the Cromwellian Parliaments 
symbolized the birth of Moses in the year 1656. Moses 
(that parliamentarian democratic spirit) caused the exo- 
dus of the prophetic three hundred in the year 1736, wdio 
landed at Savannah, Georgia, under Ogelthorpe, and 



CAIN THE EUROPEAN VAGABOND. 273 

which was then in the 80th year of 'Moses' age; then he 
governed them (the children of Israel which landed as 
above under Ogelthorpe) for forty years in the wilderness 
of antitypical Canaan of America, until the (antitypical 
crossing of the Jordan) revolutionary war of independence 
in 1776 to 1783. That was when the Cromwellian parlia- 
mentary spirit, a type of the old Mosaic democracy, was 
120 years of age. 

Then Joshua ruled the people twenty-five years — un- 
til he was superseded by the reorganized judiciary of the 
United States in the year 1801, by the Supreme Court 
judges being increased in numbers from three to five, 
with twenty-three districts. 

It is plainly to be seen that the creation was a crea- 
tion of symbols, as there was created a first Adam and 
a second Adam; the first Adam symbolized the second, 
which was Christ. 

The generation of the first Adam is given .in the 
fourth chapter of Genesis. Cain slew Abel, his brother, 
and is cursed for the crime, and is pronounced a vaga- 
bond; "and a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in 
the earth," and Cain says: "I shall be a fugitive and a 
wanderer in the earth" (Europe). 

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord 
and dwelt in the land of Nod (which means flight, wander- 
ing)on the east of Eden; on the east of Eden is east of the 
land of the old cradle of Christianity; where it began to 
be symbolized by the name of "Garden of Eden," which 
was the land of Palestine. 

When the second xA.dam, which was Christ's dispen- 
sation, came into existence through Christ, the family of 
Cain yet dwelt on the east. Cain, the vagabond, symbol- 
ized the xA.rabians, Saracens, Moors, and, as they had been 
driven out from the face of the Lord, they did not recog- 
nize the dispensation of Christ (only through Moham- 
med), and have not even unto this day; yet they came into 
the earth (Europe) in great numbers, and have been 
driven about like vagabonds ever since. 

The word man, in the prophecies, always symbolizes 
a nationality; so does Cain; and his wife must symbolize 
their church, or "their belief and religion, of whatsoever 
kind, or nature. 



274 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain lest any find- 
ing him should smite him, and that race of people (Ham's 
offspring) have been a marked race from their creation; 
and to this day they are, surely, being driven from their 
territory, in Europe. 

Genesis, 4-25: "And Adam knew his wife again and 
she bare a son and called his name Seth ; for, said she, God 
hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel." Now 
this plainly says another seed, meaning another dispensa- 
tion of Christ, the second Adam, who is of the lineage of 
Seth; but the family of Cain — or, rather, his descendents 
— are still vagabonds, and symbolize the Turks in Eu- 
rope. 

And to Seth was born Enoch; then men (nations) be- 
gan to call upon the name of the Lord, as Enoch walked 
with God, and was not, for God took him in 1776, as he 
was emblematic of the United States. 

The nations did not call, or recognize, the one Lord 
before Christ; if they did, there was no record made of it; 
before that time the Lord was only known in Palestine, 
the garden of Eden, which Adam and Eve, who symbol- 
ized the first church and nation, and who were driven 
from their first palace, Canaan, the garden of Eden, in 
the days of the second Adam; and, when the Turkish Mo- 
hammedans expelled Christianity from Palestine, they 
symbolized the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the gar- 
den of Eden; then again, the seven-fold vengeance that 
was declared against him, that should slay Cain, was 
meted out to the seven great crusades that went out 
against Cain, who typified the Turkish Mohammedans, in 
Canaan. 

The second Adam mentioned by the prophets in 
Paul's letter to the Romans is as follows, 5-14: "Neverthe- 
less death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over 
them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's 
transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come." 

Corinthians, 15-45: "So also it is written, the first 
man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam became 
a life-giving spirit; thus symbolizing Christ." 

L Timothy, 2-13: "For Adam was first formed, then 
Eve; and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being 



CAIN THE EUROPEAN VAGABOND. 275 

beguiled hath fallen into transgression; but she shall be 
saved through the childbearing, if they continue in faith 
and love and sanctification with sobriety." 

Paul says plainly that Eve, the first church, has fallen 
into transgression, and that she shall be saved if her chil- 
dren continue in faith and love and sanctification and 
sobriety. 

Now, if we take the thirteenth verse as above quoted, 
to be literal, and not to consider Eve as a symbol, then 
Eve, the first woman, could not be saved unless her chil- 
dren should continue in faith and sanctification, which is 
contrary to all the teachings of Christ and the prophets, 
aside from the thirteenth verse above referred to. 

Eve, being a symbol of the first great mother church, 
causes Paul to condemn the great church, yet the great 
object that she was created for will be accomiplished 
through her offsprings, the reformed churches; and that 
through them the final object for which the great family 
of churches was created, will be accomplished. 

Their final great object is Christ's Kingdom, the 
United States, which is Christ and the temple of God, and 
it has been stealing upon the nations like a thief in the 
night. Christ says: "I am the resurrection." The United 
States was created from the dust of the earth (Europe); 
then those that sleep in the dust of the earth will arise 
(meaning the second resurrection, or the resurrection of 
the dead), after that great day of war, trouble and earth- 
quake in Europe, that is soon to come, as these days 
(1896-7) are the beginning of the Lord's preparation 
spoken of by the prophet Nahum. 

The expression "that day," used so often by the 
prophets, and the way by which the expression is so often 
used, shows from the very nature of the case that the time 
of "that day" would have to be established, the same as 
the greater part of all the Scriptures was to be interpreted 
by the signs, symbols, seasons, days, years, intervals and 
by numerals, that the great creation was composed of. 
God says in the midst of that creation, Genesis, 1-14: "And 
let them (meaning those which he was creating) be for 
signs and for seasons, and for days and years." 



276 >NC1ENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

In a literal sense there is no danger of the man being 
lost, for the simple reason that he was created first, and 
was not beguiled by the serpent. Yet Adam told the Lord 
that the woman gave him the fruit, and he did eat. Then 
it seems that it was a greater crime to be beguiled by the 
serpent than by the woman. They were both condemned 
and cast out of the Garden of Eden. Yet, according to 
Paul, Eve has to endure greater risks and to have less 
chances of being saved than her husband, Adam, in a lit- 
eral view. 

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, 
•and dewlt in the land of Nod (vagabond) on the east of 
Eden — and Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and 
bare Enoch; and he (Cain) builded a city and called the 
name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. 

The land of Nod on the east of Eden will apply to 
Arabia on the east of the nursery of Christianity, as Nod 
(vagabond) will answer to the many idols worshipped by 
the ancient Arabians. Then the wife of Cain bore Enoch 
in the land of Nod; the wife of Cain symbolized the old 
idol worship before the time of Mahomet. History in- 
forms us that they worshipped an assortment of three hun- 
dred and sixty idols. And Cain's son Enoch symbolizes 
Mahomet; and the city that Cain built in Nod symbolized 
the doctrine of Mohammedanism, as it is called by that 
name after his son Enoch — Mahomet. 

From that came the many Turkish tribes, and is sym- 
bolized by the city as the tribes of Europe are symbolized 
by the great city. Cain said "Every one that findeth me 
shall slay me," and the Lord said unto him, "Whosoever 
slayeth Cain vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold." 
Now this seems to be the reason that Turkish Mohamme- 
danism has been allowed so long in Europe. And the 
seven-fold vengeance will be taken on them that finally 
slay the Turks (Cain, the vagabond). 

The land of Nod symbolizes all the Ishmaelites or 
Arabians of Arabia, of which some parts have at times 
been subjected by the surrounding nations. But Ara- 
bia, as a country, is the only land in all antiquity that 
never bowed to the yoke of a foreign power. The 
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CAIN THE EUROPEAN VAGABOND. 277 

epoch, or the Christian era, as the names of the children 
of Ham were given in olden times to most of the territory 
settled by the Arabians, particularly the Mohammedans, 
as Mizram in Egypt, Phut in Africa, Canaan in Palestine, 
and Sebe on the upper Nile, or Nubia, Sheba and Dedan 
on the Persian gulf; Raamah also settled on the Persian 
gulf in the territory of Arabia. 

The children of Ham gave their names to nearly all 
of Arabia, Palestine, Egypt, Nubia and the upper Nile, 
and to Africa, along the southern shores of the Mediter- 
ranean Sea, as far west as ancient Carthage; and in 710 
A. D. the children of Ham's empire as far as the pillars of 
Hercules; these countries have been occupied by people 
of the Mohammedan faith for about 1,200 years, and at 
different times have overrun the greater portion of the 
earth (Europe). 

In explanation we will say that the earth was created 
at the creation when God created all the Scriptural sym- 
bols, figuratively 6,000 years ago, but not literally, in six 
days; and the earth, or world, means all of the territory 
that the Romans called the world, or earth, and it includes 
all of the then known part of the globe, and it was all Ro- 
man territory; yet it was not known to be a part of a globe 
until maViy years after, and in a general way it is referred 
to as Europe; but it includes much more than is allowed 
to Europe in the present day; and all the known part of 
Africa is symbolized by the name of Egypt, in the Scrip- 
tures, yet was included in the then known world. 

The Scriptures are exact to the very letter, even in 
their symbolisms, as at the time the Scriptures were writ- 
ten it was not known that the world, or earth, was even a 
part of a globe; hence the Scriptural earth only includes 
the then Roman Empire; thus the names world and earth 
form a part of the veil that has intentionally veiled the 
Scriptures, and will until the exact time allotted for its 
removal. 

It also included all the conquests of Alexander the 
Great, and far north into Russia, the then territory ot 
Sytha. 

In the year 711, a Saracen, named Taric, crossed the 
straits at the head of 7,000 men and took possession of Mt. 



278 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Calpe, vv^hose modern name of Gibraltar (Gibel-al-Taric, 
or Hill of Taric) still preserves the name of the Saracen 
vagabond. The Arabic (Moorish Mohammedans received 
the name Saracen from Sara, Children of the Desert, from 
which they emerged when they overran Spain, France, 
and nearly all Europe. They swept all before thetn until, 
reaching the very center of France, their progress was 
stayed by the confederated Franks, commanded by 
Charles Martel. The two great armies met on the plains 
between Tours and Poicters, about one hundred and thir- 
ty miles southwest from Paris. The Arabs had the ad- 
vantage of the fight for the first six days, while they 
skirmished at a distance. But on the seventh day 'both 
armies charged, then came the deadly onset, and the 
monkish historians of thart; period report 375,000 Arabs 
left dead on the field. This no doubt is an exaggeration, 
but the slaughter must have been great to have checked 
them. The great slaughter of the Saracens was due to 
the long two-handed swords with which most of the Ger- 
man tribes were armed. They never resumed the con- 
quest in that part of Europe, but it was nearly thirty years 
before they were driven beyond the Pyrenees. 

Crete and Sicily were conquered by the Moslems in 
about 823, and in 878 Syracuse submitted to them, and 
from the po^rts of Sicily and Africa the Mohammendan 
fleets used to ravage and pillage the cities and provinces 
of Italy. At the time of the conquest of Sicily, one of 
their fleets entered the Tiber, and the Moslems plundered 
the temples of St. Peter and St. Paul, about 846 A. D. 
The Arabian Princes of the tribe of Hammedan madt 
themselves masters of, and held for a period of 100 years, 
Mespotamia with the cities of Mosul and Aleppo with 
their usual series of crimes. 

The City that Cain Built in the Land of Nod and Called 
It After the JVame of His Son^ Eiioch^ Symbolized the 
Arabic JMohanimedans Whose JSfanie Was Changed to 
that of jMohamtnedan 7\irks^ Tet Afaintaijied the Same 
Religion as that of the Khaliffs. 

Motassem, the eighth Khalifif of this family, with 
whom its glory expired, perceiving how the valor and vir- 



CAIN THE EUROPEAN VAGABOND. 279 

tues of the Arabs had decHned, adopted the plan of form- 
ing a body-guard from the martial hordes of the Turks, 
who dwelt beyond the river Jihon in Turkestan, and their 
youths taken in war or purchased as slaves were trained to 
arms, and instructed in the principles of Islam; Motas- 
sem collected 50,000 of them about the middle of the ninth 
century around his throne at Bagdad. Their conduct in- 
censed the citizens and he and they retired to Samaria, a 
city on the Tigris, where they soon after murdered Motas- 
sem, and placing iMasteyoo on the throne, compelled him 
to surrender the right of nominating their own Com- 
mander, and the Emir-Ulomra of the Empire; and in 
about the year 865 Moktader, to rid himself of their power, 
placed them on the different frontiers, and thereby has- 
tened their becoming independent, though history says 
but little of them until about the middle of the eleventh 
century; when the Turks, from beyond the Rivers Axus 
and Jaxartes, made inroads into the Empire of Persia, and 
in the decline of the power of the Khalififs, they encroached 
more and more, and pastured their herds south of these 
rivers; being encouraged by their countrymen, who were 
now dominant at the Court of the Khaliffs. 

Their ranges extended as far as the Tigris. The 
Persians gave them battle, but were driven out of the 
greater part of their dominions. 

These Turks now proceeded to elect a king; the deci- 
sion was committed to the lot of Arrows, and Togrul Beg, 
son of Michael, the son of Sel-Jook gained the prize. 
Togrul then took Bagdad, when he was by the feeble, 
Khalifif appointed Vicegerent of the Vicar, the Khaliff of 
the prophet, and Lord over all Mohammedans. Togrul's 
cavalry ravaged the country as far as the city of Erzeroom 
and massacred 130,000 Christians. Togrul and his sub- 
jects were zealous in the faith of Islam, and he entertained 
the highest reverence for the successors of the prophet; 
he restored to his own, the Khaliffs dominion, Bagdad 
and its district, and the Vicar of the prophet enjoyed a de- 
gree of independence to which he had long been a 
stranger. 

It was with reluctance that the KhalifT Caven be- 
'Stowed his daughter on the Turkman Shepherd, though 



28o ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

•Monarch of Asia. Thus the city was built and the Arabic 
Mohammedans became Turks. Togrul was succeeded by 
his nephew, Alp Asian; this Monarch invaded the Roman 
Empire, and his conquest -of Armenia was rapid; the 
Georgians of Caucasus offered a braver, though unavail- 
ing, resistance. 

The Turks penetrated to Phrygia; in about the year 
1071 Romanus Diogenes, the Roman Emperor, in three 
campaigns drove them beyond the Euphrates, but wh^n 
he attempted the recovery of Armenia, the Romans were 
defeated and their Emperor captured on the field of bat- 
tle, and was led a captive into the presence of Alp Arslan, 
by whose magnanimity and generosity the Roman, after 
the kindest of treatment, was set at liberty on condiiton 
of a large ransom and an annual tribute. Alp Asian now 
turned his armies against his countrymen beyond the 
River Jihoon, or Axus, but was assassinated, and his son, 
Malek Shah, whose noble qualities and extent of domin- 
ion, made him the greatest prince of the age, and the 
tribes of Turkestan acknowledged his supremacy, and 
from the confines of China to- thos ; of Constantinople and 
Egypt, his mandates were obeyed. 

About this time (1096) the first of the seven crusades 
began, and continued for one hundred and seventy-hve 
years; the seven were in substance all alike, in cause and 
purpose ; they seem to be a living evidence of the. mon- 
strous folly within the range of universal possibility, of 
which all Europe seems to have been ashamed of their 
frenzied efforts to gain possession of an abandoned grave. 

Genesis, 4-15: "And the Lord said unto him, there- 
fore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on 
him seven-fold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain lest 
any finding him should kill him." 

Now, the crusades were against the Saracen Empire 
that was symbolized by Cain, and were not the nations 
punished seven times, and perhaps seven-fold of the in- 
juries that they inflicted on the Saracens was meted to 
them. Where is there a nation that has been such a pecu- 
liarly marked nation as that of the Turks? Then where 
will a nation answer to the vagabond, as the Turks (in the 
earth, Europe)? He has occunipd the gerater portion of 



CAIN THE EUROPEAN VAGABOND. 281 

Europe and has been driven out and has been continually 
on the move. Genesis, 4-12: "A fugitive and a wanderer 
shalt thou be in the earth." * 

Genesis, 9-24: "And Noah awoke from his wine and 
knew what his younger son (Ham), had done unto hi-n 
(murderd 'Christians in Armenia), and he said, cursed 
be Canaan (son of Ham), a servant of servants shall he 
be unto his brethren, and he said blessed be the Lord, the 
God of Shem, and letGanaan be his servant; God enlarge 
Japheth and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let 
Canaan be his servant." 

The curses pronounced on Canaan, the son of Ham, 
and that Japheth should be enlarged and dwell in the 
tents of Shem, meaning Shem's territory; this curse has 
not yet been applied to the family of Ham; neither has 
the Japheth family dwelt in the territories of Shem. The 
name of the seven sons of Japheth are : Gomer, iMagog, 
Medaia, Tiras, Javan, and Meshech; the ancient territories 
that were assigned to each of Japheth's sons, and which 
bore their respective names, are on the ancient maps of 
the earth, or world, which we find to be as follows : Gomer, 
on the north of the Black Sea; Mesheck, between the 
Black and 'Caspian Seas, in Circassia, north of Mt. Elburz; 
Magog, on the south of the Caucasian range of moun- 
tains and north of Mt. Ararat; Madai settled south of the 
Caspian Sea, known as ancient Media; Tiras settled north 
of the Bosphorus; Javan settled in Greece; Tubal settled 
in Armenia on the northeast shores of the Black Sea. 

Genesis, 10-19: "And the border of the Canaanite 
was from Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; 
as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Adamh 
and Zeboiim, unto Lasha." These are the sons of Ham, 
after their families, after their tongues in the lands, in 
their nations (this shows that all the tribes of Palestine 
were Hamites, fathers of the Canaanites) ; yet in Egypt, 
north of the river Nile, was called the land of Ham : and 
in prophecy, Egypt symbolizes all Africa. 

The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asher, Arpachshad, 
Lud and Aram. The family of Asher, son of Shem, set- 
tled north of the River Tigris, where they built the city 
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282 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Syria, and built Balbeck, near the great pass of the Ante- 
Libanus M'ountains. Uz, one of Aram's sons, settled 
south of Palestine in Arabia; Elam settled between the 
Persian gulf and 'Meda; Lud settled in Africa on the 
southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, which now has 
the modern name of Tripoli. 

Cain (Turkey), the European vagabond will be slain, 
then seven-fold vengeance will be taken upon the nations 
that smite him. The faces of Shem and Japheth are yet 
turned backwards from the drunkenness of Noah (the 
drunkenness of Noah symbolizes the lethargy of Europe 
in regard to the Armenian massacres) ; Noah symbolizes 
Europe (Earth), as Noah and his three sons settled the 
earth in al'l its divisions; and the atrocities of Cain (Tur- 
key), the vagabond, that he is committing in Bulgaria and 
Armenia, are heralds of the approaching time when the 
nations of Europe will be compelled to slay the vagabond; 
then will come the seven-fold vengeance upon the nations 
that smite Cain, and annex his territories to their own. 

RevelatiO'n, 16-17: "And the seventh poured out his 
bowl upon the air; and there came forth great voice out 
of the temple, from the throne, saying, 'It is done.' " ihe 
seventh pours his bowl on the air, meaning all, universal — 
meaning the seventh and last angel (angels always symbol- 
ize a literal agency of some kind) ; that agency will go forth 
to inaugurate the reign of terror, or the greatest of politi- 
cal earthquakes in Europe; that agency is the smiting of 
Cain, division of Turkey, by the powers of the earth (Eu- 
rope), when the present depressing financial situation 
reaches its climax. 

Revelation, 16-18: "And there were lightnings and 
voices and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, 
such as was not since there were men (nations) upon the 
earth (Europe) so great an earthquake, so mighty." 19: 
"And the great city was divided into three parts, and the 
cities of the nation's fell." 

The seventh bowl was poured upon the air, which 
means universal (all of the earth, Europe). Then will 
come the great voice out of the temple from the throne, 
saying: "It is done." The temple and throne are always 
with his people, Israel of America, and the voice will soon 



CAIN THE EUROPEAN VAGABOND. 283 

come from the great press of Israel, as that great time of 
trouble and woe in the old world is predicted by the 
prophets. Consequently it is inevitable. 

Then Canaan, the son of Ham, will be the servant of 
Shem, and Japheth will be enlarged and dwell in the tents 
of Shem, meaning his territories; also Canaan shall be 
Japheth's servant. These things will come to pass when 
the great city (Europe) is divided into three parts, and the 
cities of the nations have fallen. 

And that great earthquake so mighty, as were not 
since there were men upon the earth, meaning since there 
A'ere nations upon the earth (Europe). Men mean nations, 
and this mighty earthquake is to be a political one; mean- 
ing one of war and revolutions, as the prophets do not 
mention literal earthquakes. 

The great city symbolizes Europe (the earth), and the 
revolution will reduce it to three governments, and the 
northern division, Japhethites, are to be the largest and the 
strongest, as they are to dwell in the tents of Shem. Yet 
the Shemites are to receive a blessing from the revolution, 
but '■he Hamites are to be servants to both Japheth and 
Shem. Cain, the Hamites, Canaanites, are all the same, 
and they symbolize all 'Mohammedanism; and they are 
to be under the power of the other two great powers after 
the great earthquake and revolution. 

We find that great time of earthquake, war, and trou- 
ble of Europe heralded in H. Esdras, 6-19: "And when 
the affliction of Zion shall be fulfilled" (this means our 
present affliction). 20 — "And when the world (the earth, 
Europe) that shall begin to vanish away shall be finished, 
then will I shew these tokens, the books shall be opened 
before the firmament, and they shall see all together" (this 
means that the times will compare so exactly with the 
prophecies, that all will see together). The books being 
opened before the firmament means by or before heaven, 
and heaven always symbolizes the United States of Israel. 
21 : "And the children of a year old shall speak with their 
voices, and the women with child shall bring forth un- 
timely children of three or four months old, and they shall 
live and be raised up." 

Young children that speak with their voices symbol- 



284 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ize the rapidity in which societies and parties of different 
kinds will spring into existence and have power and a 
voice in the affairs of the nations. See the rapidity of our 
own political parties, the fragments of the two great par- 
ties, the Gold, Populist and Silver parties; the necessity 
of the times produce such things in haste. "And the wom- 
en that bring forth untimely children." In prophecy, 
vvo'men always symbolize a Church or Churches; and thiC 
untimely children spoken of symbolize the many societies 
spoken of, and also orders of many kinds that v.'ill be or- 
ganized by the many and different churches; the famished 
finances of all Christendom will of necessity compel tne 
churches, for humanity sake, to organize quickly for vari- 
ous purposes, but mainly to alleviate distressed and starv- 
ing humanity. 

li. Esdras, 6-22: "And suddenly shall the 
sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall sud- 
denly be found empty." The words used here are the 
storehouses, and mean all, and the "sown places" mean 
all of the so'wn places, and will not admit of a division (and 
mean all of the resources of Europe); the greater number 
of Scriptural events are foretold by symbols, sometimes 
by miracles, in their way of describing something that 
miraculously took place before their eyes; yet those 
miracles may only have existed in the language of the 
prophets to convey the story of something that was to 
literally transpire ages to come, the same as the grea: 
creation, where all things that were created were symbols, 
and were created to symbolize the Creator's constitutional 
laws that he chose to give to all nations, in the shape thai 
they will find them when they are advanced far enough to 
interpret them; for we believe that even a partial interpre- 
tation would require tons of printed matter. 

"The sown places and full storehouses" will be af- 
fected at the time of the earthquake of war and trouble 
in the earth. II. Esdras, 6-23: "And the trumpet 
shall give a sound, which when every man heareth, they 
shall be suddenly afraid." Trumpets are world-wide sig- 
nals, and "everv man" means everv nation on the earth 
(Europe). Now, when all nations are afraid 'here will be 
no security, neither will there be any value in landed prop- 



CAIN THE EUROPEAN VRGABOND. 285 

erty, and nearly all kinds of property will in like manner be 
affected; then who will supply the nations with money 
that are already irrecoverably in debt? Have we not 
already had, and in fact, are we not now having a fore- 
warning of what is to follow by the above predictions? 

The world's currency is fast flowing to the great 
money centers, nearly all kinds of property are rapidly de- 
clining in value, and the condition of the great masses of 
humanity will become intolerable; then what will happen? 
W hat happened in France under about the same condition 
of affairs in 1793? There was a political earthquake, and 
it was foretold in Revelation, 11-13: "And in that hour 
('that hour' means when the two witnesses were slain, the 
old and new Testaments that were declared fiction by ne 
French Assembly in 1793) there was a great earth- 
quake and the tenth part of the city fell, and there were 
killed in that earthquake 7,00 persons." Now, France is a 
tenth part of the great city (Europe, she is also one of the 
ten horns of the ten-horned beast), and the 7,000 persons 
that lost their lives were those that were politically killed, 
as those who have examined the French records tell us that 
there were just 7,000 of the nobility and clergy who lost 
their titles in the French (political) earthquake — reign of 
terror in 1793; yet France is only the tenth part of the 
city that is yet to be divided into three parts. The proph- 
ets call Europe the great city, because it is a great com- 
munity of similar nations; Turkey, also a tenth part of 
the city, is in poverty; Spain that was one of the most 
wealthy, is now under a cloud of debt and rebellion, and 
the other parts of the great city are all supporting great 
armaments, and, as it were, lying upon their arms continu- 
ally as if-some dreaded foe lurked in their midst. 

II. Esdras, 6-24: "And the earth shall stand in 
fear with those that dwell therein." Those that they fear 
that dwell therein, are the mighty men of the "red shield" 
mentioned by Nahum, 2-3: "The shield of his mighty 
men is madt red; the valiant men are in scarlet." 

That fear which dwells in the midst of Europe is the 
socialist red republicans, whose banner is red; then those 
in scari.et are the Salvation Army, the greatest and most 
valiant armies on the globe. According to the prophet, Na- 



286 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

hum, all the things that he mentions are to be conspicuous 
in the days of the Lord's preparation, and we have many 
reasons for believing that these are the days of his prepara- 
tion, and the trumpet shall soon give that sound, which, 
when every man heareth, they shall be suddenly afraid. 

Ilien the sown places will suddenly appear unsown, 
the full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty. The 
appearance of the sown places and finding the full store- 
houses empty, symbolizes the condition that the nations 
of the earth will be in, both financially and pohtically, at 
the time of that fear and greatest of political earthquakes, 
the most mighty since there were men (nations) upon the 
earth (Europe). An account of this time of war and trou- 
ble is given in II. Esdras, Chap. 15, 2710 37, inclusive. 

II. Esdras, 15-27: "For now are the plagues 
come upon the whole earth, and ye shall remain in them: 
for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned 
against him" (the whole earth means all Europe). 

28. "Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance 
thereof from the east" (the horrible panorama will appear 
to the United States from the east, as the prophecies ap- 
pear to emanate from his people). 

29. "W'here the nations of the dragons of Arabia 
shall come out with many chariots, and the multitude of 
them shall be carried as the wind upon earth, that all they 
which hear them may fear and tremble" (the invasion of 
Europe will come by the way of Arabia, and a great army 
will suddenly invade Europe from the direction of Afgan- 
istan, Beeloochistan, and from all Mohammedan India). 

30. "Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go 
forth as the wild bears of the wood, and with great power 
shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste 
a portion of the land of the Assyrians." (The ancient ter- 
ritory of the Carmanians now bears the modern name of 
Beeloochistan, and is principally Mohammedan.) 

31. "And then shall the dragons have the upper 
hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn 
themselves, conspiring together in great power to perse- 
cute them." (The dragons — 'Mohammedans— are to gain 
the first victory.) 



CAIN THE EUROPEAN VAGABOND. 287 

32. "Then these shall be troubled, and keep silence 
through their power, and shall flee." 

^2^. "And from the land of the Assyrians shall the 
enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in 
their hosts shall be fear and dread, and strife among their 
Kings." 

34. "Behold clouds from the east and from the north 
unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, 
full of wrath and storm." 

35. "They shall smite one upon another, and they 
shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth, 
even their own star; and blood shall be from the sword 
unto the belly." (Smiting down many stars upon earth 
signifies the many Kings, Princes, and rulers that will be 
deposed in Europe; "even their own star" may mean a 
change from a monarchial form of government to that of 
a republic.) 

36. "And dung of men unto the camel's hough." 

^y. "And there shall be great fearfulness and trem- 
bling upon earth; and they that see the wrath shall be 
afraid, and trembling shall come upon them." 

Our numerical calculation in this volume will vary 
throughout about three years, ranging from 1896 until 
1899, as that interval will be the time of the greatest trou- 
ble ever known, or that ever will be known, and a great 
many events culminate during that interval; in that time 
the powers that be in heaven (United States) will be shaken 
and the earth (Europe) will reel to and fro like a drunk- 
ard, and will be removed like a cottage; those three years 
will be an interval of the most awful distress which will res- 
urrect and transfigure the United States, both financially 
and politically. These things are mysteries of thousands of 
years' standing, but we give some proof of what we tell 
you, and we may vary a few years, as infallibility is not with 
men. 



Moses Conducted the Antitypicai Children of Israel 
to Savannah, Georgia, in 1736 and Ruled Them 
Till 1776, Joshua Then Ruling Until 1801. 

Antiquities, Book II.. Chap. 15-2: "They left Egypt 
in the month Xanthicus, about the 12th of ^March, on the 
fifteenth day of the kinar month, four hundred and thirty 
years after our forefather Abraham came to Canaan, but 
two hundred and fifty years only after Jacob removed into 
Egypt. It was the eightieth year of the age of Moses, and 
of that of Aaron three more. They also carried out the 
bones of Joseph with them, as he had charged his sons 
to do." 

It was the eightieth year of the age of Moses, and of 
Aaron three more. We find the exodus to typify the 
Grand Embarkation that sailed from England and landed 
at Savannah, Georgia, in 1736. This was 430 years after 
Abraham came into Canaan, which would be in 1306, 
when Robert Bruce was crowned King of Scotland, at 
Scone, by the Barons, and the foundation of Scottish 
freedom laid. The spirit of freedom thus established in 
Scotland remained with the people, and 430 years later, in 
a time of a religious persecution, induced 150 Scotch 
Highland soldiers to join the colonists going to Savannah, 
Georgia, in what was known as the Grand Embarkation. 
Thus did Abraham come into the land of Canaan. The 
exodus of 1736 was also 215 years after Jacob removed 
into Egypt, which was in 1521, when the council Sorbonne 
in Paris, under the influence of the French monarch, de- 
clared that flames, and not reasoning, ought to be em- 
ployed against the arrogance of Luther, and in the same 
year the Diet of Worms, at which Charles V. presided, pro- 
nounced the imperial ban of excommunication against 
Luther, and condemned his writings to be burned, and 

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THE ANTITYPICAL ISRAELITES. 289 

commanded him to be seized and brought to punishment. 

This year of the exodus was the eighty-third year of 
the life of Aaron, which would therefore make the year 
1653, that of Aaron's birth. ■» This was the year the title 
of Lord Protector was conferred upon Cromwell, and 
this is the event typified by the birth of Aaron. As the 
spirit that animated Moses and Aaron pervaded the whole 
host of Israel and caused them to strike for freedom, so 
the spirit of democratic liberty that animated the support- 
ers of Cromwell, nursed by a thrifty people, could r ' 
brook the tyranny of religious persecution, and preferred 
liberty in the forests of America to tyranny in their own 
country. 

They also carried out the bones of Joseph with them 
as he had charged his sons to do. — Antiquities, Book II., 
Chap. 15-2. 

Jacob died after he had been in Egypt seventeen 
years, at the age of 147 years, and was buried at Hebron 
(Alliance), in the land of Canaan, as were also his sons 
sometime after their deaths, except Joseph, whose body 
was embalmed and put in a coffin in Egypt and carried out 
of that country by the Israelites, at the time of the exodus, 
as he had commanded his sons to do. These bones of 
Joseph, 'which were carried out of Egypt by his sons, were 
the democratic principles of religion established by 
Luther, and carried out of the modern Egypt (Europe), 
by the Lollards, 'Piedmontes, Waldenses and Salzburgers 
to the Canaan of America. 

Antiquities Book IV., Chap. 8-48: "When Moses had 
spoken thus at the end of his life, and had foretold what 
would befall to every one of their tribes afterward, with the 
addition of a blessing to them, the multitude fell into tears, 
insomuch that even the women, by beating their breasts, 
made manifest the deep concern they had when he was 
about to die. The children also lamented still more, as not 
able to contain their grief; and thereby declared that even 
at their age they were sensible of his virtue and mighty 
deeds; and truly there seemed to be a strife between the 
young and the old. who should most grieve for him. The 
old grieved because they knew what a careful protector 
they were to be deprived of, and so lamented their future 



290 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

state; but the young grieved, not only for that, but also 
because it so happened that they were to be left by him be- 
fore they had well tasted of his virtue. Now one may 
make a guess at the excess of this sorrow and lamentation 
of the multitude, from what happened to the legislator 
himself; for although he was always persuaded that he 
ought not to be cast down at the approach of death, since 
the undergoing it was agreeable to the will of God and 
the law of nature, yet what the people did so overbore him 
that he wept himself. Now as he went thence to the place 
where he was to vanish out of their sight, they all followed 
after him weeping; but Moses beckoned with his hand to 
those that were remote from him, and bid them stay be- 
hind in quiet, while he exhorted those that were near to 
him that they would not render his departure so lament- 
able. Whereupon they thought they ought to grant him 
that favor, to let him depart according as he himself de- 
sired, so they restrained themselves, though weeping still 
towards one another. All those who accompanied him 
were the senate, and Eleazar, the -high-priest, and Joshua, 
their commander. Now as soon as they were come to the 
mountain called Abarim (which is a very high mountain 
situated over against Jericho, and one that affords to such 
as are upon it a prospect of the greatest part of the excel- 
lent part of Canaan), he dismissed the senate; and as he 
was going to embrace Eleazar and Joshua, and was still 
discoursing with them, a cloud stood over-him on the sud- 
den, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he 
wrote in the holy books that he died, which was done out 
of fear lest they should venture to say, that because of 'his 
extraordinary virtue he went to God." 

Antiquities, Book IV., Chap. 8-49: "Now Moses 
lived in all one hundred and twenty years; a third part of 
which time, abating one month, he was the people's ruler. 
And he died on the lasit month of the year, which is called 
by the Macedonians, Dystrus, but by us Adar, on the first 
day of the month. He was one that exceeded all men that 
ever were, in understanding, and made the best use of what 
that understanding suggested to him. He had a very 
graceful way of speaking, in addressing himself to the 
multitude; and as to his other qualifications, he had such 



THE ANTITYPICAL CHILDREN. 291 

a full command of his passions, as if he hardly had any 
such in his soul, and only knew them by their names, as 
rather perceiving them in other men than in himself." 

"He was also such a general of an army as is seldom 
seen, as well as such a prophet as was never known, and 
this to such a degree that whatsoever he pronounced you 
would think you heard the voice of God himself. So the 
people mourned for him thirty days. Nor did ever any 
grief so deeply affect the Hebrews as did this upon the 
death of Moses; nor were those that had experienced his 
conduct the only person that desired him, but those also 
that perused the laws he left behind him had a strong de- 
sire after him, and by them gathered the extraordinary 
virtue he was master of. And this shall suffice for the 
declaration of the manner of the death of Moses." 

"All those who accompanied him (to the place where 
he was to vanish out of their sight) were the senate 
(Colonial Congress) and Eleazar, the High Priest, Chief 
Executive, or President; and Joshua, their commander. 
Now as soon as they were come to the mountain called 
Abarim (declaration of independence) he dismissed the 
senate, and as he was going to embrace Eleazar and 
Joshua, and was still discovirsing with them, a cloud stood 
over them (the war cloud of 1776) on the sudden, and he 
disappeared in a certain valley." 

"Now Moses lived in all 120 years; a third part of 
which time, abating one month, he was the people's ruler. 
And he died on the last month of the year which is called 
by the Macedonians, Dystrus, but by us Adar, on the 
first day of the month." 

Moses, as we have said, was born with the refusal of 
Cromwell to receive the kingly crown offered him by the 
Parliament of England in 1656. Not Cromwell, but the 
democratic sipirit that existed among the Parliament- 
arians, compelling Cromwell to refuse the crown, was 
typified by Moses, and this spirit of democratic freedom 
working among the people led three hundred of them 
eighty years (two-thirds of Moses' life) later to leave the 
country in what is known as the Grand Embarkation of 
1736. He was with the Israelites in the wilderness of 
America forty years (one-third of Moses' life), abating one 



292 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

month, or until 1776, when he died, just as they were 
about to enter the promised land (independence) of the 
great anti-typical Israel of America. The cloud that stood 
over him at his death, was the war cloud that hovered over 
the country in 1776. Joshua ruled the people for twenty- 
five years, from 1776 to 1801, when the Judiciary of the 
United States was re-organized and the Supreme Court 
was made to consist of five judges, and the country was 
divided into six circuits, comprising twenty-three districts, 
in each of which a United States District Judge was ap- 
pointed. 

The destination of the larger portion of the Grand 
Embarkation of 1736 was to build a new to win upon the 
Island of St. Simon's, at the mouth of the Altamaha River, 
and at Darien, farther up that river. The new Ebenezer 
of the Salzburgs, aod Augusta (both on the Savannah 
River) were begun at about the same time. 

It was said in England that no Colony was ever 
founded so well as Georgia. Their Councilors prohibited 
the importation of rum, and when it came to the question 
of labor, slavery was positively forbidden, all of which 
they soon violated and rebelled against, or else they would 
not have been typical Israelites. 

Joshua, Chap. I.: "Now it came to pass after the 
death of .Moses (in 1776) the servant of the Lord that the 
Lord spake unto Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' minister, 
saying: 'Moses, my servant is dead, now, therefore, arise, 
go over this Jo^rdan (Revolution of 1776-1783) thou and 
all this people unto the land which I do give to them, 
even to the children of Israel. Every place that the sole 
of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as 
I spake unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Le- 
banon, even unto the great river, the River Euphrates 
(sweet water) all the land of the Hitites, and unto the 
great sea toward the going down of the sun (the Pacific 
Ocean on the west of Israel) shall be your border.' " 



The Younger Receives the Greater Blessing. 

Why did God tell Jacob twice that he had changed 
his name to Israel? It appears that the most important 
prophecies are repeated. This is typical of the younger or 
latter Israel, as Isaac gave Jacob, the younger son, the 
greater blessing. Then the first temple was as nothing 
compared with the latter. It is a well known fact that 
there has never yet been built in Palestine a temple greater 
than the first. Christ said, "ye are the temple" (meaning 
his people), and are not the greater body of true Christians 
found in the United States? Are not the freest, the great- 
est and most charitable institutions here in the United 
States? 

When Joseph presented his two sons to Isaac, their 
grandfather, he being blind, put his -right hand on the 
head of the younger, and Joseph quickly discovering the 
mistake (as he thought) says, Not so, my father, for this 
is the first born, put thy right hand upon his head. And 
his father refused and said, I know it, my son, I know it. 
He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, 
but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and 
his seed-shall become a multitude of nations. (See Genesis, 
Chap. 48.) 

Is it co-mmon sense -to even suppose that such an ap- 
parently insignificant incident as the misplacement of a 
hand onfhe head of a child would be mentioned in the book 
that the Creator of all things has said will stand forever, 
if it were not typical of something greater? We believe it 
is, and that the latter Israel of the United States will be- 
come so that the first Israel will be as nothing compared 
to it. 

The blindness of Isaac is typical of those who built 

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the new Jerusalem and the temple in it, as they built 
greater than they knew. The United States is Israel re- 
stored, and it will answer to the New Jerusalem, and the 
latter great temple predicted so many times in the Scrip- 
tures. 'Christ said to his Disciples: First the Scriptures 
must be published to the whole world, and then shall be 
seen the sign of the son of man (John Brown) coming on 
the war clouds of heaven. Now the son of man was typi- 
fied by Jesus of Nazareth, the same as Moses and his dem- 
ocratic confederacy, or one might say, his written republi- 
can constitution typified that of the United States, which 
was almost identical with the written constitution of the 
United States, and the United States is the nation men- 
tioned in the Scriptures that was born in a day. 

Now there are many persons who believe that Christ 
did go to some place, that is personally; but it is not rea- 
sonable, for he told his Disciples to go preach the Gospel 
to all mankind, and he said: "Lo, I will be with you even 
to the end of the world." His Disciples did go and had 
Christ with them, and were 1776 years preaching this anti- 
typical Israel of America into existence, or rather into a 
beginning, as here in the United States will be found his 
written constitution of Christianity. 

■Christ told his Disciples that the eagles would be 
gathered where the carcass was. Israel's tribes are called 
twelve, but out of Joseph there sprang two tribes, each 
of which received an inheritance, thus making thirteen, 
and they occupied thirteen states or territories in Pales- 
tine, thus typifying the thirteen American colonies. It is 
also remarkable that William Penn was proprietor of 
two colonies, Delaware and Pennsylvania. 

As Joseph was imprisoned for his virtue, and yet 
had a double and birthright portion on account of his vir- 
tue, so William Penn suffered imprisonment for his vir- 
tue, and yet had a double portion of the great antitypical 
Israel. The Hebrew confederacy was organized into a 
more perfect union after the exodus, by adopting a writ- 
ten democratic constitution, and so the confederate colon- 
ies after the war of independence, in order to form a more 
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THE GREATER BLESSING. 295 

constitution was submitted to the tribes for acceptance 
or ratification, and so was the American constitution in 
like manner submitted to the states. It is not a Httle re- 
markable that the Hebrew and American constitutions 
are the only written ones ever known to have been adopted 
at the birth of a nationality prior to 1492 B. C, and 1776 
A. D., or during that interval, 3,268 years. 



The First Creation. 

The first creation that God accomplished in six days 
was a creation of symbols, to symbolize the real creation 
of the second Adam, which was Christ. Consequently, 
Adam symbolized the Roman Empire after Christ, and 
Eve symbolized the first great church after Christ. 

Why that was a creation of symbols: 

Genesis, Chap. 1-14: "And let them be for signs, and 
for seasons, and for days and years." 

And why Eve symbolized the first church: 

Genesis, Chap. 3-20: "And the man called his wife's 
name Eve; beca.use she was the mother of all living." 
Living Christianity through the great Roman Catholic 
Church, hence she is mother of all the living. The Bish- 
ops, priest and monks of t'he great Roman Catholic 
Church were the active instruments employed by Divine 
Providence to instruct, convert and civilize the fierce 
barbarians of the old Roman earth. Moreover, the su- 
periors of clerical and monastic bodies were frequently 
invested by Christian kings and emperors with civil juris- 
dicbiom, and as it was exercised by them in a more equi- 
table manner than by secular magistrates, men quickly 
learned to prefer their decisions to the hasty judgments 
of war-like and ignorant nobles. This accounts for the 
great portion of temporal authority which bishops and 
abbots possessed in those remote ages, and which they 
used in checking the arbitrary vexations of private lords, 
and rendering as much as possible the various classes of 
the people partakers of the general advantages of society. 

The church was the chief, or rather the only, means 
which stemmed the torrent of barbarism, and not only 
saved letters and learning from universal shipwreck, but 
also caused the wild tribes, whose destructive invasion 

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had been so detrimental to them, gradually to imbibe and 
adop: the principles of civil and social life. The Goths. 
Franks, Lombards, Saxons, and Germans received those 
principles of human studies which they before heartily de- 
spised, and Christianity rescued them from their ignorance 
and barbarity. As it was established in the provinces that 
tell under their power, these savage tribes, whose habits 
of plunder and revenge could not be checked by force of 
arms, sooner or later yielded to the mild precepts of the 
Gospel. Their minds and hearts became attached to a 
religion which did not teach them only by speculative 
maxims and didactic precepts, but also by examples, and 
rites equally moving and instructive. 

Li Proof of the fexvs Not Being the Children of Israel. 

Barnabas, Chap. 3-16: "Consider this also ; although 
you have seen so great signs and wonders done among the 
people of the Jews, yet this notwithstanding the Lord 
hath forsaken them." 

Verse 17: "Beware therefore, lest it happen to us; 
as it is written, there may be many called but few chosen." 

This shows that 'the Jews of the old Israel were for- 
saken, and Barnabas cautions us lest there be few of us 
saved. 

The Apocryhal new Testament, IL book of Hermas, 
called his commands. 

Command i-i : "First of all believe that there is one 
God, who created and framed all things of nothing into a 
being." 

Verse 2: "He comprehends all things, and is only 
immense not to be comprehended by any." 

Verse 3 : "W'ho can neither be defined by any words, 
nor conceived by the mind." 

The words are not yet invented, neither has the mind 
of man been advanced far enough to define the immensity 
of the Almighty; then why should we wonder at the 
sarcasms of infidelity, or marvel at the multiple phrases of 
Christianity? 

Isaiah, 24, 20-21-22: "The earth (Europe) shall stag- 
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a but; and the transgressions thereof shall be heavy upon 
it, and it shall fall and aiot rise again." 

21. "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the 
Lord shall punish the host of the high ones on high, and 
the Kings of the earth upon the- earth." 

22. "And they shall be gathered^ together, as 
priso'ners are gathered in the pit, and shall 
be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be 

visited." 

That day is fast approaching, as the Kings of 
the earth (Europe) are bound by their many alliances, and 
their great fear of the red republican socialists who dwell 
in their midst; they are already but little better than pris- 
oners, and according to the Scriptures their affairs are 
to become worse and worse. The Armenian butcheries 
are not allowed from any fear of the Turk, but the fear of 
their surrounding neighbors, and of those who dwell in 
their midst, chief of which are their enormous national, 
industrial, and municipal debts, of which inevitable repu- 
diation awaits. Then it wall be as Isaiah says in Chap. 
24, 1-2: "Behold the Lord maketh the earth empty, and 
maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scat- 
tereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as 
with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, 
so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mistress; 
as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so 
with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the 
giver of usury to him. The earth shall be utterly emptied, 
and utterly spoiled; for the Lord hath spoken this word." 

Repudiation will cause all these things, and many 
things cause repudiation, chief of which is a contracted 
medium of exchainge. 

Isaiah, 24-23: "Then the moon shall be confounded, 
and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of hosts shall reign 
in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients 
gloriously." His ancients are those who have adopted his 
ancient democracy of the primitive children of Israel un- 
der Moses. 

Then our President will be ashamed. He is symbol- 
ized by the sun, in the constellations of heaven; and the 
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THE FIRST CREATION. 299 

by the moon. This is the time when we loose our enemy, 
the King of Israel. 

All things mentioned in the Scriptures before Christ 
were created to symbolize the things after Christ, which 
was the beginning of the literal creation. 

The Scriptural account of the great slaughter of cap- 
tive men, women, and children in time of war, are symbols 
to symbolize political slaughter in a political war: The 
men mean the matured iniquitous institutions politically 
overpowered; the women mean those ecclesiastical or- 
ders; the children mean young institutions; when the 
women were saved, means the presevation of religious or- 
ders; the children saved alive, means the preservation of 
the young and innocent orders; these, along with the 
polygamy practiced by the patriarchs, the divorce law of 
Moses, are all considered great weapons against Go'd and 
the divinity of his Scriptures by the self-styled philoso- 
phers; they hurl all manner of sarcastic, scurrilous slang 
against the healings and miracles of the prophets; yet the 
healings, miracles, slaughters, captivities, Adam and Eve, 
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, David and Solomon, 
the temple and its veil, Esan and his descendants, the 
flood, the Ark and its rest upon (Mount Ararat, Noah and 
his three sons and their settlement of all the earth; all 
these things, along with all other things created before 
'Christ, and all things directly connected with them, and 
the Scriptural stories written of them, are all hieroglyphs 
upon the walls of prophecy, and when deciphered, each 
and every one will literaMze something after Christ per- 
taining to the Israel of America, as it is the great miracle 
of miracles, the dwelling place and temple of the Al- 
mighty; the one for all his purposes, in which he will 
manifest himself to the human family of this globe. 



Vespasian Signifies the United States Currency, and 
Was Born in 1837. 

The Temple Destroyed in the Secoiid Year of the Reign 
of Vespasian. 

The Jewish War, Book VI., Chap. 4-8: "However, 
one cannot but wonder at the accuracy of this period there- 
to relating; for the same month and day were now ob- 
served, as I said before, wherein the holy house was burnt 
formerly by the Babylonians. Now the number of years 
that passed from its first foundation, which was laid by 
King Solomon, till this its destruction, which happened in 
the second year of the reign of Vespasian, are collected to 
be one thousand one hundred and thirty, besides seven 
months and fifteen days; and from the second building 
of it, which was done by Haggai, in the second year of 
Cyrus, the king, till its destruction under Vespasian, there 
were six hundred and thirty-nine years and forty-five 
days." 

And from the second building of it, which was done 
by Haggai in the second year of Cyrus, the king (King 
Henry HI. of England), who commenced his reign in 1258; 
and the second year of his reign would be 1259. The sec- 
ond year of Cyrus, the king, signifies the second year of 
the parliament, or great council, that was called and met 
at Oxford, June nth, 1258. Now we add this 639 years 
and forty-five days and we have July 26th, 1897. 

The Jewish War, .Book VI., Chap. 4-5 : "God had for 
certain long ago doomed it to the fire; and now that fatal 
day was come, according to the revolution of ages. It 
was the tenth day of the month Lous (Ab.), upon which 
it was formerly burnt by the King of Babylon." 

Although these flames took their rise from the Jews 
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UNITED STATES CURRENCY. 301 

themselves, and were occasioned by them ; for upon Titus' 
retiring, the seditious lay still for a little while, and then 
attacked the Romans again, when those that guarded the 
holy house fought with those that quenched the fire that 
was burning in the inner (court of the) temple; but these 
Romans put the Jews to flight, and proceeded as far as the 
holy house itself. At which time one of the soldiers, with- 
out staying for any orders, and without any concern or 
dread upon him at so great an undertaking, and being hur- 
ried on by a certain divine fury, snatched somewhat out 
of the materials that were on fire, and being lifted up by 
another soldier, he set fire to a golden window, through 
which there was a passage to the rooms that were round 
about the holy house, 011 the north side of it. As the 
flames went upward, the Jews made a great clamor, such 
as so mighty an affliction required, and ran together to 
prevent it; and now they spared not their lives any longer, 
nor suffered anything to restrain their force, since that 
holy house was perishing, for whose sake it was that they 
kept a guard about it." 

It was the tenth day of the month Lous (Ab.) upon 
which it was formerly burnt by the King of Babylon, al- 
though these flames took their rise from the Jews them- 
selves. The number of years that passed from its (the 
temple) first foundation by Solomon (Charlemagne), till 
its destruction in the second year of the reign of Vespas- 
ian, are 1,130, besides seven months and fifteen days. 
Charlemagne, who is typified by Solomon, began to reign 
in the year 768 A. D., to this we add the years the temple 
stood, from Solomon tO' Vespasian, 1,130, and W'C find it 
will be destroyed in the year 1898, A. D., which is the sec- 
ond year of the reign of Vespasian. Yet the monetary 
system of Charlemagne might not of been established until 
the year 769, which would bring the destruction of our 
■monetary temple in the year 1899. Charlemagne did 
establish a system and coined gold and silver coins, but 
we have not been able to find that exact date. 

Vespasian typified our currency or circulating 
medium, and was born in the year 1837, with the issue of 
$10,000,000 treasury notes by Congress. Josephus says 
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302 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

our currency and free coinage of silver is advocated by 
the producing plebeians. 

From Charlemagne in the year A. D. 768, until the 
second year of Vespasian, there was to be an interval of 
1,130 years seven months and fifteen days. Now if we 
add the latter to the 768, we are carried to the year 1898, 
August 15th, A. D., and as we cannot find the exact day 
that lOharlemagne came to the throne, we will have to 
rely on the following under Haggai, in the second year of 
Cyrus, and from the second building of it, wnich was done 
by Haggai, who typifies the Parliamentarians at the time 
of the great council in the time of Henry HI. of England, 
June nth, in the year 1258, A. D. Until Vespasian, there 
was to be an interval of 639 years and forty-five days, 
which would end July 26th, 1897. 

There was a great council called and a royal procla- 
mation issued in the English language, in the year 1258, 
the first in the English tongue since tne conquest. The 
English language is that pure language which the Al- 
mighty is preparing for his people; as he has said that he 
will return to them a pure language that they may all un- 
derstand and knO'W the Lord from the least to the greatest. 



When the Temple Was Built — Which Was Doric by 
Haggai. 

In the second year of Cyrus, the king (second year of 
the league of the Barons, against Henry HI. of England), 
till its destruction under Vespasian, there was 639 years 
and forty-five days (from June nth, 1258, till July 26th, 
1897). 

In April, 1258, Henry III. called a parliament, but 
the barons appeared in arms with Gloucester and Lei- 
cester at their head. The king was forced to consent to 
the appointment of a committee of twenty-four to draw 
up terms for the reform of the state. The twenty-four 
again met the parliament at Oxford in June; although half 
the committee consisted of royal 'ministers and favorites, 
it was impossible to resist the tide of popular feeling. 

By the "Provisions of Oxford" it was agreed that the 
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UNITED STATES CURRENCY. 303 

summoned by the king or no; and on each occasion the 
commonalty shall elect twelve honest men who shall come 
to the parliaments, and at other times when occasion shall 
be, when the king and his council shall send for them, to 
treat of the wants of the king and of his kingdom. And 
the commonalty shall hold as established that which these 
twelve shall do. Three permanent committees of barons 
and prelates were named to carry out the work of reform 
and administration. 

A royal proclamation in the English tongue, the first 
in that tongue since the conquest which 'nas reached us, 
ordered the observance of these provisions. The king was. 
In fact, helpless, and resistance came only from the foreign 
favorites, who refused to surrender the castles and honors 
ivhich had been granted to them. But the twenty-four 
were resolute in their action; and an armed demonstra- 
tion of the barons drove the foreigners in flight over sea. 

It is difficult to locate the exact date of the enactment 
that constituted the building of the monetary temple in 
the times of Henry III., in about the year 1258, as the 
democratic parliamentarian spirit that pervaded the peo- 
ple, in those days, was but a step in advance of feudalism, 
consequently there is a discrepancy in the ending of tlie 
intervals of years from the building of the monetary tem- 
ple in the days of Henry HI. and reaching to its firing, 
and also to its destruction in about the years 1896 to the 
year 1899, but from those convulsive days of Henry HI 
civilization made wonderful strides. The coinage of goK 
perhaps would constitute the building of the monetary 
temple, which was symbolized by the old Jewish temple. 

The political and financial revolution continues from 
1896 (when the United States as a free republic died) for 
three years, until .its resurrection in the year 1899. 

From the reign of Henry III. the House of Commons 
dates its origin; gold coin was first introduced; the art 
of distillation was learned from Jie 'Moors; linen shirts, 
introduced by the Flemish, were substituted for woolen, 
coals for wood, candles for wooden splinters, and tiles on 
the principal houses of London for thatch; architecture 
was greatly improved; the fine arts were encouraged, and 



304 ANCIENT OF DAY5 RENEWED. 

the celebrated philosopher, Roger Bacon, prepared the 
way, it is said, for the invention of gunpowder. 
Charlemagne (Solomon) began to reign 

the year A. D. 768 

There is an interval of. A. D.1130-7-15 

From Charlemagne (Solomon) until the 

destruction of our iniquitous financial 

system in the second year of the reign 

of Vespasian 1898-7-15 

A. D. 1258-6-11 — Haggai (great) Council of Henry III.. 

June II, 1258. 
A. D. 639- 1- 1 5 — The interval. 

1897-7-26 — Financial destruction under Vespas- 
ian, 



Why Charlemagne Was a Type of King Solomon. 

Gibbon says of him: "The appellation of great has 
been often bestowed, and sometimes deserved; but Char- 
lemagne is the only prince in whose favor the title has 
been indissolubly blended with the name. That name, 
with the addition of saint, is inserted in the Roman calen- 
dar, and the saint, by a rare felicity, is crowned with the 
praises of the historians and philosophers of an enlight- 
ened age. His real merit is doubtless enhanced by the 
barbarism of the nation and the times from which he 
emerged; but the apparent magnitude of an object is 
likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison, and the 
ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendor from the 
nakedness of the surrounding desert. Without injustice 
to his fame, I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity 
and greatness of the restorer of the western empire. Of 
his moral virtues, chastity is not the most conspicuous; 
but the public happiness could not be materially injured 
by his wives or concubines, the various indulgence of 
meaner or more transient amours, the multitude of his 
bastard'S whom he bestowed on the church, and the long 
celibacy and licentious manners of his daughters, whom 
the father was suspected of loving with too fond a passion. 
I shall be scarcely permitted to accuse the ambition of a 
conquerer; but in a day of equal retribution, the sons of 
his brother Carloman, the Merovingian princes of Aqui- 
lain, and the four thousand five hundred Saxons who 
were beheaded on the same spot, would have something 
to allege against the justice and humanity of Charle- 
magne. His treatment of the vanquished Saxons was an 
abuse of the right of conquest; his laws were not less 
sanguinary than his arms, and in the discussion of his 
motives, whatever is subtracted from bigotry must be 

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imputed to temper. The sedentary reader is amazed by 
his incessant activity of mind and body, and his subjects 
and enemies were not less astonished at his sudden pres- 
ence, at the moment when they beHeved him at the most 
distant extremity of the empire; neither peace nor war, 
nor summer nor winter, were a season of repose, and 
our fancy cannot easily reconcile the annals of his reign 
with the geography of his expeditions." 

Matthew, Chap, ii, 28-29-30: "Come unto me, all 
ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you 
rest." 

29. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me ; for I 
am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto 
your souls." 

30. "For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." 
This will apply to the nations, as God is not a re- 
specter of persons, and all the prophecies are directed to 
his nation Israel, and the other nations of the earth 
(Europe). When the prophets mention the names of per- 
sons, they symbolize nations, political parties, institutions, 
etc. 

Genesis, Chap. 1-14: "And let them be for signs, and 
for seasons, and for days and years." 

The heaven and the earth, and the things that were 
there and therein created were created for symbols, to 
symbolize the literal creation which began with the birth 
of Christ. 

Luke, Chap. 18, 15-16: "And they brought unto 
him also their babes, that he should touch them; but when 
the disciples saw it they rebuked them." 

16. "But Jesus called them unto Him, saying, 'Suf- 
fer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them 
not; for of such is the kingdom of God.' " 

The above symbolizes the territories and weak na- 
tions which will apply for annexation to the United States 
of Israel that Christ is to deliver over to the Father, after 
which it will be the kingdom of God. 

At first there will be some opposition to annexation, 
which will be overcome and annexation will become the 
order of the day. 

Zechariah, Chap. 14, 8-9: "And it shall come to pass 



A TYPE OF KING SOLOMON. 307 

in that day, that Hving waters shall go out from Jerusalem; 
half of them towards the eastern sea, and half of them to- 
wards the western sea; in summer and in winter shall it 
be." 

The new order of things shall make the east and the 
west equal in privileges. 

9. "And the Lord shall be King over all the earth; 
in that day shall the Lord be one, and his name one." 

At the end of the period which is called that day by 
the prophets, the greater portion of the globe will be united 
for the accomplishment of reforms, and will be all advanc- 
ing toward one end. This time of disaster will last about 
seven years, beginning in 1893, and ending about 1900, 
and is referred to in Ezekiel, Chap. 21, 25-26-27. 

Ezekiel, Chap. 21-25 : "And thou, O deadly wounded 
wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in 
the time of iniquity of the end; thus saith the Lord God." 

26. "Remove the mitre, and take off the crown; 
this shall be no more the same ; exalt that which is low and 
abase that which is high." 

2y. "I will overturn, overturn, overturn it; this also 
shall be no more until he comes whose right it is; and I 
will give it him." 

The old version of the same passage is, 25: "And 
thou profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, 
when iniquity shall have an end." 

26. "Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem 
and take off the crown; this shall not be' the same; exalt 
him that is low and abase him that is high." 

2^. "I will overturn, overturn, overturn it; and it 
shall be no more until he comes whose right it is; and I 
will give it him." 

The wicked prince of Israel is the twenty-fourth elder 
spoken of by Daniel, and is the twenty-fourth President of 
the United States, and is the last one with regal power. 
Overturn, overturn, overturn; this means that in that 
day, that is, from 1893 to 1900, will be the greatest revolu- 
tion ever known. It will not necessarily be a bloody revo- 
lution for all nations, but it will be a cleansing one. Right 
here we will say that a greater portion of the prophecies 
are pointing to that day (the time of this revolution) which 



3o8 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

is the time of his preparation; the very nature of the Scrip- 
tures show it, as they have not all been thoroughly trans- 
lated into 'his language (English) that the Lord is prepar- 
ing for his people, which Will in time become the language 
of the globe, for by far the greater part of the sacred 
Scriptures are unknown even to his people. 

Zephaniah, Chap. 3-9: "For then will I turn to the 
peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the 
name of fhe Lord to serve him with one consent." 

The English language is here undoubtedly referred 
to, for it is already spoken by more civilized people than 
any other language, some estimates placing it as high as 
135,000,000, while no other language is spoken by more 
than about 50,000,000 people of one nation. English is 
fast becoming the polite language of Europe, being used 
by thirty per cent, where no longer ago than the beginning 
of the present century it was spoken by only about twelve 
per cent of the population. We mean only the civilized 
nations here, for wecannot find all of India or China in the 
prophecies, and there are many tongues among them. 
The unity of the English language in the United States is 
a marvel. Seventy-hve million people of one tongue has 
never been recorded in the history of great empires. 

Zechariah, Chap. 14-4: "And his feet shall stand in 
that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusa- 
lem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the 
midst thereof towards the east and towards the west, and 
there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain 
shall move towards the north and half of it towards the 
south." 

In that day. This means a period of time of prepara- 
tion mentioned' by Nahum about the end of the ages, from 
1896 to 1899, and is called by the prophet Nahum the day 
of his preparation. 

By mountains cleaving in the midst towards the east 
and the west, is meant that the United States government 
will cleave in the midst. 

There will be a very great valley. That is, a great 
difference between the political parties, and their strength 
shall move towards the north and the south. 

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THE DAYS OF HIS PREPARATION. 309 

for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel; yea, 
ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in 
the days of Uzziah, king of Judah; and the Lord, my God 
shall come, and all the holy ones with Thee." 

Earthquakes with the prophets are always political or 
financial; hence a financial famine may cause a political 
shake, at which time the people will flee to the moimtains 
of state governments. 

Flee by the valley of my mountains, means that the 
states (mountains) shall assume separate authority, and is 
what is meant by 'the mother being dashed to pieces 
against her children. 

The Lord, my God, shall come and all His holy ones 
with Thee. That is, a new order of things shall be set up. 

Revelation, Chap. 16-15: "Behold, I come as a thief. 
Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments 
(pure governing national constitutions), lest he v^ralk 
naked, and they see his shame." 

I come as a thief. (Christ is to come as a thief.) Are 
we to understand that Christ comes personally as a thief? 
He is not, for that would be silly and contrary to the great 
plan of symbolic prophecy, as Christ is only the spirit of 
prophecy, and these prophecies are being^ fulfilled, and 
mankind does not know it, and will not until the time ap- 
pointed, and this United States of Israel is stealing upon 
the world unawares to all nations, and that is Christ and 
the express thing that he came into the world to accom- 
plish, and it will be the setting up of his kingdom between 
the two great seas on top of his great mountain (great 
civil government) of the United States. 

Revelation, Chap. 16-16: "And they gathered them 
together into the place which is called in Hebrew Har- 
Magedon. 

This gathering at Har-Magedon is another gathering 
from that of the kings to the great battle, as Har-Magedon 
signifies a mountain of the gospel, and it may designate 
that time when the Almighty will turn things into another 
meaning spoken of by the prophets, and it will take place 
about the time w^hen the iniquity of all nations is full. 

Isaiah, Chap. 25-7: "And He will destroy in this 



3IO ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

mountain the face of the covering that is cast over all peo- 
ples, and the veil that is spread over all nations." 

Daniel, Chap. 12-11: "And from the time that the 
continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and I'he 
abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a 
thousand two hundred and ninety days." 

The continual burnt offerings were taken away in the 
year 602, by Phocas, a Centurion in the army of Emperor 
Maurice, whom he murders after usurping his throne, 
after which he acknowledges the supremacy of the Bishop 
of Rome, and from which time the continual burnt offer- 
ings were taken away. And from that time — 602 — there 
was to be an interval of 1,290 days — years — which ended 
with the year 1892, when the abomination of desolation, 
spoken of by Daniel, was set up by nearly all nations, and 
especially by ours, as the Fifty-third Congress, which was 
convened at the call of the President. August 7, 1893, 
passed the abomination of desolation act, and it became 
a constitutional law of our country. We give the text o' 
the abomination of desolation bill, wdiich is as follows: 

An act to repeal part of an act approved July 14, 1890. 
entitled, "An act directing the purchase of silver bullion 
and the issue of treasury notes thereon, and for other pur- 
poses." (The silver purchasing repeal act. See Congres- 
sional Record of Fifty-third Congress, which convened in 
special session August 7, 1893.) 

The virtues of Maurice had long since endeared him 
lO the hearts of his subjects, for as he walked barefooted 
In religious processions and was assaulted with stones, 
his guards eagerly presented their iron maces in defense 
of his person. The degeneracy of the provinces (Roman 
empire) could no longer supply a race, and after a long 
and pcrnici(jus indulgence, the obliteration of the inveter- 
ate evil was undertaken by Maurice, but the attempt drew 
destruction on his own head — his dethronement and later 
his assassination. On one occasion, as he was passing 
along the highway, a frantic monk ran into the streets 
toward him with a drawn sword, and a vile plebeian, who 
represented his countenance and apparel, was seated on 
an ass, and pursued him by the imprecations of the multi- 
tude. 



FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. 311 

In a small bark the unfortunate Maurice, with his 
wife and nine children, escaped to the Asiatic shore; but 
the violence of the wind compelled him to land at the 
church of St. Autonomus, near Chalcedon. 

On the third day, amidst the acclamations of a 
thoughtless people, Phocas made his public entry in a 
chariot drawn by four white horses. The revolt of the 
troops was rew'arded by a lavish donation, and the new 
sovereign, after visiting the palace, beheld from his throne 
the games of the hippodrome. 

In a dispute of precedence between the two factions, 
his partial judgment inclined in favor of the greens. Re- 
member that Maurice is still alive, resounded from the op- 
posite side, and the indiscreet clamor of the blues admon- 
ished and stim'ulated the cruelty of the tyrant. The min- 
isters of death were dispatched to Chalcedon; they 
dragged the emperor from his sanctuary, and the five sons 
of Maurice were successively murdered before the eyes of 
their agonized parent. 

The tragic scene was finally closed by the execution 
of the emperor himself, in the twentieth year of his reign, 
and the sixty-third of his age. The bodies of the father 
and his five sons were cast into the sea; their heads were 
exposed at Constantinople to the insults or pity of the 
multitude. 

Phocas does not appear less hateful in the exercise 
than in the acquisition of power. The pencil of an impar- 
tial historian has delineated the portrait of a monster, his 
diminutive and deformed person, the closeness of his 
shaggy eyebrows, his red hair, his beardless chin, and his 
cheek disfigured and discolored by a formidable scar. 
Ignorant of the letters, of laws, and even of arms, he in- 
dulged in the supreme rank a more ample privilege of lust 
and drunkenness, and his brutal pleasures were either in- 
jurious to his subjects or disgraceful to hini'self. With- 
out assuming the office of a prince, he renounced the 
profession of a soldier, and the reign of Phocas aftlicted 
Europe with ignominious peace, and Asia with desolating 
war. 

Thus was Emperor Maurice murdered, and his 
throne usurped by Phocas, who took away the continual 
burnt offerings, by acknowledging the supremacy of the 



312 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Bishop of Rome, in the year 602. To worship God with- 
out the assistance of the state is what is meant by con- 
tinual burnt offerings. 

Matthew, Chap. 24, 15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24- 
25: "When therefore ye see the abomination of desola- 
tion, which was spoken of by Daniel, the prophet, stand- 
ing in the holy place" (let him that readeth understand). 

16. "Then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the 
mountains." 

17. "Let him that is on the housetop not go down 
to take out the things that are in his house." 

18. "And let him that is in the field not return back 
to take his cloke." 

19. "But woe unto them that are with child and to 
them that give suck in those days!" 

20. "And pray ye that your flight be not in the win- 
ter, neither on a Sabbath." 

21. "For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath 
not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, 
nor ever shall be." 

22. "And except those days had been shortened, no 
flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake those 
days shall be shortened." 

2^^. "And if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is 
the Christ, or, here; believe it not." 

24. "For there shall arise false Christs, and false 
prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; so as 
to lead astray, if possible, even the elect." 

25. "Behold, I have told you beforehand." 

The abomination of desolation was set up in the year 
1892. 

Then let those in Judaea (United States) flee to each 
separate state government. 

Woe to those with child and those who give suck, 
meaning those who are indebted and have large responsi- 
bilities on their hands. And in these days there will be 
many false Christs, such as healers, mediums, and such as 
call themselves messiah's, and they will show signs and 
wonders, all of which can be seen at the present time. 

Matthew, 'Chap. 24, 26-27-28-29-30-31 : "If therefore 
they shall say unto you, behold, he is in the wild-erness; 



MANY FALSE CHRISTS. 313 

go not forth; behold, he is in the inner chamber; beHeve it 
not." 

2y. "For as the lightning cometh forth from the 
east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the com- 
ing of the son of man." 

28. "Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the 
eagles be gathered together." 

29. "But immediately after the tribulation of those 
days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not 
give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the 
powers of the heavens shall be shaken." 

30. "And then shall appear the sign of the son of 
man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth 
mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming on the 
clouds of heaven with power and great glory." 

31. "And he shall send forth his angels with a great 
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his 
elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the 

other." 

For as the lightning comes from the east and shines 

even to the west, so shall be the coming of the son of man; 

as it was in the year 1859, the news of it was sent unto the 

west by telegraph, so the same will happen when the city 

falls. 

The sun shall be darkened, means that our greatest 
luminary, the President, will lose much of his power. The 
moon shall not give her light, may mean the Vice Presi- 
dent and the Senate will have their power diminished; and 
the stars — minor officers of the United States, many of 
whom will be dismissed — and the powers of heaven (Uni- 
ted States) shall be shaken. Then shall appear the sign of 
the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven (United 
States). Clouds mean trouble. 

And he will send forth his angels (agencies) with a 
great sound of a trumpet (a great and universal signal) and 
shall gather his chosen; the most righteous institutions, 
from one end to the other of the heaven (United States), 
will be gathered and set up soon after the city falls. It 
will be the resurrection, which is the transfiguration. 

And then shall all the tribes of the earth (Europe) 
mourn, meaning all nations of Europe ; they are all to hear 
of our trouble, which will create our transfiguration. 



The Siege of Jerusalem and Destruction of the Jew- 
ish Temple. 

Which Symbolized Our Present Monetary System that 
Is Near Its Destruction. 

Below we give the fifth, sixth and seventli verses of 
the fifth chapter of Book VII., of "Josephus' Jewish War," 
as in it we find a symbolic description of the political and 
financial conditions immediately after the fall of Jerusa- 
lem, which denotes the fall of plutocracy and overthrow of 
our present famished financial system, which is symbol- 
ized by a double triumph for both Vespasian and Titus; 
as they will share the same honors on entering the city of 
Rome, an instance that had never transpired at Rome be- 
fore, which indicates two very important, righteous acts 
passed by Congress that frees our country from the clutch 
of plutocracy. 

All the things carried in the double triumphal pro- 
cession of Vespasian and his son Titus symbolize the times 
and affairs prior to the two enactments. The two acts will 
be similar to the acts passed by Congress, one in the year 
1840, and the other in 1866, as Vespasian was born in 
1840, and his son Titus in 1866, A. D. The captives car- 
ried in the procession are the corrupt laws and institutions 
which will be annulled or defeated at that time; the fine 
texture of the captives' garments concealed the deformity 
of their bodies- — for example, our present political parties 
clothe each iniquitous plank in their platforms with at- 
tributes contrary to their real deformities. 

In fact, these shows and pompous pageantry never 
existed literally, further than on the pages of Josephus; 
but it symbolizes the literal time and affairs of the begin- 
ning of the political resurrection and transfiguration. The 
two strokes of Judith that severs the head from the body 

314 



THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. 315 

of Holofernes, the chief captain of all the hosts of Nabu- 
chodonosor (Nebuchadnezzar), symbolized the two en- 
actments which constitute Vespasian and his son Titus, 
and they symbolize the two chief constitutional additions 
which resurrect the real democracy of Moses and Christ; 
also it is the time when Christ turns the kingdom over to 
the Father. 

"Some who were accustomed to vaunt the most loud 
ly now stood pale, trembling, inactive; others endeavored 
to break through the Roman works and make their es- 
cape. Vague rumors were spread abroad that the whole 
western wall had fallen, that the Romans were in the city; 
the men looked around for their wonted leaders; they 
neither saw their active figures hurrying about in the 
thickest of the fray, nor heard their voices exciting them 
to desperate resistance. Many threw themselves on the 
ground and bitterly lamented their fate. 

"Even John and Simon, instead of remaining in their 
three impregnable towers, where nothing but famine 
could have reduced them, descended into the streets, and 
fled into the valley of Siloam. They then made an attempt 
to force their way through the wall ; but their daring and 
strength seemed alike broken; they were repulsed by the 
guard, dispersed, and at length crept down into the subter- 
ranean vaults. The Romans ascends d the wall with shouts 
of triumph at a victory so much beyond all hope, easy and 
bloodless; they spread through the streets slaying and 
burning as they went. 

"In many houses where they expected rich plunder 
they found nothing but heaps of putrid bodies, whole fam- 
ilies who had died of hunger; they retreated from the loath- 
•ji^me sight and insufiferable stench. But they were not 
moved to mercy toward the living; in some places the 
flames were actually retarded or quenched with streams 
of blood; night alone put an end to the carnage. When 
Titus entered the city he gazed with astonishment at the 
massive towers, and recognized the hand of God in a vic- 
tory which had thus made him master of such fortresses 
without a struggle. 

"The multitude of prisoners who pined in the dun- 
geons, where they had been thrown by the insurgents, 



3i6 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

were released. The city was ordered to be razed except- 
ing the three towers, which were left as standing monu- 
ments of the victory. 

"The soldiers themselves were weary of the work of 
slaughter, and orders were issued to kill only those who 
resisted. Yet the old and infirm, as unsalable, were gen- 
erally put to death. The rest were driven into a space 
of the temple, called the Court of the Women. 

"There a selection was made; the noted insurgents 
were put to death, excepting some of the tallest and most 
handsome, w'ho were reserved to grace the triumph of 
Titus. Of the rest, all above seventeen years old were 
sent to Egypt to work in the mines, or distributed among 
the provinces to be exhibited as gladiators in the public 
theaters, and in combats against wild beasts. Twelve 
thousand died of hunger — part from want or neglect of 
supplies, part obstinately refusing food. During the 
whole siege, the number killed was 1,100,000, that of 
prisoners 97,000." 

In fact, the population, not of Jerusalem alone, but 
that of the adjacent districts — many who had taken refuge 
in the city, more who had assembled for the feast of un- 
leavened bread — had been shut up by the sudden forma- 
tion of the siege. 

Yet the chief objects of their vengeance, the daunt- 
less son of Gioras, and John the Gischalite, still seemed 
to baffle all pursuit. The Roman soldiers penetrated 
into the subterranean caverns; wherever they went they 
found incalculable treasures, and heaps of dead bodies — 
some who had perished from hunger, others from their 
wounds, many by their own hands. 

The close air of the vaults reeked with the pestilen- 
tial effluvia; most recoiled from these pits of death; the 
more rapacious went on, breathing death for the sake of 
plunder. At length, reduced by famine, John and his 
brethren came forth upon terms of surrender; his life 
was spared — a singular instance of lenity, if indeed his 
conduct had been so atrocious as it is described by his 
rival Josephus. He was condemned to perpetual impris- 
onment, and finally sent to Italy. 

Many days after, toward the end of October (1899), 



THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. 3^7 

when Titus had left the city, as some of the Roman sol- 
diers were reposing amid the ruins of the Temple, they 
were surprised by the sudden apparition of a man in white 
raiment, and with a robe of purple, who seemed to rise 
from the earth in silent and imposing dignity. At first 
they stood awe-struck and motionless; at length they 
ventured to approach him; they encircled him, and de- 
manded his name. He answered, "Simon the son of 
Gioras ; call hither your general." Terentius Rufus was 
speedily summoned, and to him the brave, though cruel, 
defender of Jerusalem surrendered himself. On the loss 
of the city, Simon had leaped down into one of the vaults 
with a party of miners, hewers of stone, and iron work- 
ers. 

For some distance they had followed the natural 
windings of the cavern, and then attempted to dig their 
way out beyond the walls; but their provisions, however 
carefully husbanded, soon failed, and Simon determined 
on the bold measure of attempting to overawe the Ro- 
mans by his sudden and spectral appearance. News of 
his capture was sent to Titus; he was ordered to be set 
apart for the imperial triumph. 

Thus fell, and forever, the metropolis of the Jewish 
state. Other cities have risen on the ruins of Jerusalem, 
and succeeded, as it were, to the inalienable inheritance 
of perpetual siege, oppression, and ruin — meaning per- 
petual siege upon the root of all evil. 

Jerusalem seems to be a place under a peculiar curse; 
it has probably witnessed a far greater portion of human 
misery than any other spot upon the earth. 

For the destruction of nearly a million and a half of 
human lives, and the reduction of above 100,000 to the 
most cruel servitude, Titus was entitled to a splendid 
triumph. If the number in Josephus may be depended 
on ,the fearful catalogue of those who lost their lives or 
their liberty in this exterminating war, and its previous 
massacres, stands as follows: 

Before the War Under Vespasian. 

At Jerusalem, killed by Florus S-^oo 

At Caesarea 20,000 



3i8 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

At Scythopolis 13,000 

At Ascalon 2,500 

At Ptolemais 2,000 

At Alexandria 50,000 

At Damascus 10,000 

At Joppa 8,400 

Upon the mountain Asamon 2,000 

The battle near Ascalon 10,000 

The Ambuscades 8,000 

129,500 
Dnri]ig the War in Galilee and Judca. 

At Japha 1 5,000 

On Gerizim 11 ,600 

At Jotapata 40,000 

At Joppa 4,200 

At Tarichea 6,500 

At Gamala ". 9,000 

At Gischala 6,000 

In Idumea 10,000 

At Gerasa i ,000 

Near the Jordan 15,000 

118,300 

At Jerusalem 1,100,000 

After the Fall of Jeriisale?n. 

At Machaerus 1,700 

At Jardes 3,000 

At Masada 9,600 

In Gyrene 3,000 

8,600 

Total killed 1,356,460 

Prisoners. 

In Gischala 2,200 

Near the Jordan 2,500 

At Jerusalem 97,000 

Total prisoners 101,700 



THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. 319 

All these .names of places, cities and towns sy-mbolize 
the number of financial failures at different times and 
places during the siege that is now in progress, and which 
will continue until the overthrow of our present iniquitous 
financial system, also the robber factions who control the 
government by the power of their money, will all be de- 
stroyed in the fall of Jerusalem in the latter part of (1899). 

About the 7th of September (1899) the famished 
finances of the country will be so marked that those in 
high authority will shrink from the question and hide from 
the awful facts; as about 1,500,000 of the Jews at that 
time will have met their death; which symbolizes that 
many financial failures, along with the silent forges, moldy 
mills, and them who loveth and maketh a lie, will have 
lost their customary valor, and will skulk away from the 
disasters they have brought upon the nation. 

The city of Jerusalem was selected to symbolize the 
financial system of the antitypical Israel. Is there a city 
upon the globe that would have made a more perfect type 
of one of the most important institutions of civilization? 
The wonderful vicissitudes that our monetary system has 
passed through are symbolized by those of the Jews, and 
Jerusalem; by its many captivities, massacres, pestilences, 
wars, conflagrations, and its many changes of nationality 
and rulers. Even the little band of fanatics left who 
call themselves Jews, and are not, as they are only a type 
of mammon, 'scattered upon the globe without nationality 
of any kind, yet they are called a nation of bankers and 
shopkeepers; but a nation in hovels would apply more 
appropriately to the greater majority. 

If a people were selected to symbolize all of fhe mis- 
erable calamities that ever happened to civilization, those 
scattered tribes known as Hebrews, or Jews, would cer- 
tainly be chosen; so in like manner would gold and silver 
be chosen to symbolize the crimes, wars, famines, rob- 
beries, forgeries, pestilences, and deaths, since civilization 
beg:an. 



Jeiuisk War^ Book V/., Chapter 10. 
Verse i : "And thus was Jerusalem taken, in the 
second year of the reign of Vespasian, on the eighth day 



320 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

of the month Gorpieus (Elul)," (about the- eighth day of 
September, 1899). 



Jewish War^ Book VII. ^ Chapter 5. 

Verse 5 : "Now it is impos'sible to describe the multi- 
tude of the shows as they deserve, and the magnificence of 
them all; such indeed as a -man could not easily think of, 
as performed either by the labor of workmen, or the vari- 
ety of riches, or the rarities of nature; for almost all such 
curiosities as the most happy men ever get by piecemeal 
were here one heaped on another, and those both admir- 
able and costly in their. nature; and as all brought to- 
gether on that day demonstrated the vastness of the 
dominions of the Romans; for there was here to be seen 
a mighty cjuantity of silver, and gold, and ivory, contrived 
in all sorts of things, and did not appear as carried along 
in pompous show only, but, as a man may say, running 
along like a river. 

"Some parts were composed of the rarest purple 
hangings, and so carried along, and others accurately rep- 
resented to the life what was embroidered by the art of the 
Babylonians. There was also precious stones that were 
transparent, some set in crowns of gold, and some in other 
ouches, as the workmen pleased; and of these such a vast 
number were brought, that we could not but thence learn 
how vainly we imagined any of them to be rarities. The 
images of the gods were also carried, being as well won- 
derful for their largeness, as made very artificially, and 
with great skill of the workmen ; nor were any of these im- 
ages of any other than very costly materials; and many 
species of animals were brought, every one in their own 
natural ornaments 

"Then men also, who brought every one of these 
shows, were great multitudes, and adorned with purple 
garments all over iinterwoven with gold; those that were 
chosen for carrying these pompous shows having also 
about them such magnificent ornaments as were both 
extraordinary and surprising. Besides these, one might 
see that even the great number of the captives was not 
unadorned, while the variety that was in their garments, 



THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. 321 

and their fine texture, concealed from the sight the de- 
formity of their bodies. But what afforded the greatest 
surprise of all was the structure of the pageants that were 
.borne along; for indeed he that met them could not but 
be afraid that the bearers would not be able firmly 
enough to support them, such was their magnitude; for 
many of them were so made that they were on three, or 
even four stories, one above another. 

"The magnificence also of their structure afforded one 
both pleasure and surprise; for upon many of them were 
laid carpets of gold. There was also wrought gold and 
ivory fastened about them all; and many resemblances 
of the war, and those in several ways and varieties of con- 
trivances, affording a most lively portraiture of itself. For 
there was to be seen a happy country laid waste and en- 
tire squadrons of enemies slain; while some of them ran 
away, and some were carried into captivity, v/ith walls of 
great altitude and magnitude overthrown, and ruined 
by machines, with the strongest fortifications taken, and 
the walls of most populous cities upon the tops of hills 
seized on, and an army pouring itself within the walls; as 
also every place full of slaughter, and supplications of 
the enemies, when they were no longer able to lift up their 
hands in way of opposition. 

"Fire also sent upon temples was here represented, 
and houses overthrown and falling upon their owners; 
rivers, also, after they came out of a large and melancholy 
desert, ran down, not into a land cultivated, nor as drink 
for men or for cattle, but through a land still on fire upon 
every side; for the Jews related that such a thing they 
had undergone during this war. Now the workmanship 
of these representations was so magnificent and lively in 
the construction of the things, that it exhibited what had 
been done, to such as did not see it, as if they had been 
there really present. On the top of every one of these 
pageants was placed the commander of the city that was 
taken, and the manner wherein he w^as taken. 

"Moreover, there followed those pageants a great 
number of ships; and for the other spoils, they were car- 
ried in great plenty. But for those that were taken in the 
temple of Jerusalem, they made the greatest figure of them 



322 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

all; that is, the golden table-, of the weight of many talents; 
the candlestick, also, that was made of gold, though its con- 
struction were not changed from that which we made use 
of; for its middle shaft was fixed upon a basis, and the. 
small branches were produced out of it to a great length, 
having the likeness of a trident in their position, and had 
every one a socket made of brass for a lamp at the tops 'of 
them. 

"These lamps were in number seven, and represented 
the dignity of the number seven among the Jews; and 
the last of all the spoils was carried the Law of the Jews, 
After these spoils passed by a great many men carrying 
the images of victory, who'se structure was entirely either 
of ivory or gold. After which, Vespasian marched in the 
first place, and Titus followed him; Domitian also rode 
along with them, and made a glorious appearance, and 
rode on a horse that was worthy of admiration." 

Verse 6: "Now the last part of this pompous show 
was at the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, whither when 
they were come, they stood still; for it was the Romans' 
ancient custom to stay till somebody brought the news 
that the general of the enemy was slain. This general 
was Simon, the son of Gioras, who had then been led in 
this triumph among the captives; a rope had also been 
put upon his head, and he had been drawn unto a proper 
place in the forum, and had withal been tormented by 
those that drew him along; and the law of the Romans 
required that malefactors condemned to die should be 
slain there." 

"Accordingly when it was related that there was an 
end of him, and all the people had set up a shout for joy, 
they then began to offer those sacrifices which they had 
consecrated, in the prayers used in such solemnities, which 
when they had finished, they went away to the palace. 
And as for some of the spectators, the emperors enter- 
tained thehi at their own feast; and for all the rest there 
were noble preparations made for their feasting at home; 
for this was a festival day for the city of Rome, as cele- 
brated for the victory obtained by their army over their 
f^nemies, for the end that was now put to their civil miser- 



THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. 323 

ies, and for the commencement of their hopes of future 
prosperity and happiness." 

Verse 7: "After these triumphs were over, and after 
the affairs of the Romans were settled on the surest 
foundations, Vespasian resolved to build a temple to 
Peace, which was finis'hed in so short a time, and so glori- 
ous a mamier, as was beyond all human expectation and 
opinion ; for he having now by Providence a vast quantity 
of wealth, besides what he had formerly gained in his 
other exploits, he had this temple adorned with pictures 
and statues; for in this temple were collected and re- 
posited all such rarities as men aforetime used to wander 
all over the habitable world to see, when they had a desire 
to see one of them after another; he also laid up therein 
those golden vessels and instruments that were taken out 
of the Jewish temples, as ensigns of his glory. But still 
he gave order that they should lay up their law, and the 
purple veils of the holy place, in the royal palace itself, 
and keep them there." 

Rumors of a rebellion in the great west will be spread 
about, and those who always worship royalty in whatso- 
ever form they find it, although they be hungry and in rags 
themselves, will look about for their same old shoddy lead- 
ers; but the fray will be too desperate for that kind of 
leaders — ^they will not be there. 

In great corporations supposed to be wealthy will be 
found nothing but a system of corruption, such as watered 
stock, and some of the foundations of which exist only 
upon worthless paper; thus will all kind of securities, 
stocks, and bonds tumble in all directions; then the com- 
monalty of mankind will see the hand of God in the great 
revolution. 

John, who symbolizes one of the vile causes of our 
financial trouble, is spared his life, but doomed to perpetual 
imprisonment, and being finally sent to Italy, means that 
his case will come up before a general election, as the 
Roman franchise only included those of Italy, in the years 
seventy to seventy-three after the birth of Christ. 

Here Josephus is called the rival of John; conse- 
quently John is some institution that is opposed to the in- 
dependency of an independent United States treasury; as 



324 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

Josephus symbolizes our treasury which has been with 
the Jews in the antitypical Jerusalem since the time when 
we had an independent treasury, Josephus voluntarily 
delivers himself to the Romans during this siege. Jo- 
sephus symbolizes our independent treasury bill passed by 
the senate, January 23d, and by the house, June 3Qth, 
1840, also the works of Josephus are a correct political and 
financial history of the United States. 

The adjacent districts to Jerusalem mean the coun- 
tries adjacent to the United States which will be affected 
by our financial upheaval; as we are owing foreign coun- 
tries large sums of gold which it will be impossible to pay 
for the lack of gold. 

After Simon and John, who are symbols of our cor- 
rupt financial institutions, unwillingly desert their three 
impregnable positions and descend iu'to the streets, at- 
tempting to force the wall (thus meaning that those cor- 
ruptions will try to break the great fundamental principle 
of finance, anddn failing in that direction, they creep down 
into their old ways of darkest deceit and fraud), lose all 
of their ill-gotten power of wealth; thus a victory over the 
corruptions of wealth is unexpectedly obtained, which 
quickly overspreads the whole country. 

The noted insurgents mean the vilest of our financial 
institutions will be put to death, while some of the better 
sort will be left as an example of perfidy and folly in fu- 
ture elections; and all institutions that are over seventeen 
years old will be held up. to the gaze of the public as the 
mythical things of Egypt; and some of them will be com- 
pared with those of despots, as a despotic power is sym- 
bolized by a beast ; the numbers killed and made prisoners 
are respectively those who are made bankrupt and those 
who become irrecoverably in debt. 

The last of this pompous show in the forum at Rome, 
where all stood still until the news or returns from our 
elections in the forum, may mean some decision of Con- 
gress; as going to Italy, means going before the masses of 
the people for a decision. In either case the procession, or 
rather the campaign, comes to a stand until the ballots are 
counted and the news of the defeated candidate or the 
anuUing of the iniquities that have crept into our constitu- 



THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. 325 

tion, which means the news of the enemies' general being 
slain in the allotted place required by Roman law for male- 
factors to be put to death When the news reaches tht 
people tney set up a shout tor joy, tor the end that was 
now put to their civil miseries, and for the commencement 
of their hopes of future prosperity and happiness. Then 
the affairs of the Romans, meaning the people, were set- 
tled on the surest foundations; then Vespasian builds a 
temple to Peace, in a very short time, and in a glorious 
manner, much beyond their expectations; then Provi- 
dence favors them with a vast quantity of wealth. In the 
temple of Peace were collected such rarities that men 
aforetime used to wander all over the habitable world to 
see. The golden vessels and the instruments taken out of 
the Jewish temples were laid up in the temple of Peace; 
but the law and purple veils of the holy place were to be 
laid up and kept in the royal palace itself. 

This pompous show and triumphal procession sym- 
bolizes the victorious campaign carried on against the 
most iniquitious combination of money that was ever ar- 
rayed against the welfare of a righteous nation, who by the 
pow':r of their wealth rule by corrupting all branches of 
legislation; whereby millions have been reduced to the 
verge of starvation and thousands of women and children 
have perished for the want of the most common necessar- 
ies of life. The campaign against plutocracy will be suc- 
cessful because the Almighty has said so, and he has said 
that this will be the last and only evil time for Israel, He 
that created all thing, created this evil time that our na- 
tion might be resurrected and transfigured. Christ sym- 
bolized the resurrection of the United States, so he did, its 
transfiguration (see 17th chapter of Matthews). "And after 
six days Jesus, taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, 
his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain 
apart; and he was transfigured before them; and his face 
did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the 
light. And behold there appeared unto them Moses and 
Elijah talking with him." 

The prophets always use the word mountain to desig- 
nate a civil government, and a bigh mountain means a 
great civil government; thus Jesus symbolized our trans- 



326 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

figuration after six days, which means after or at the end 
of the six ages of 6,000 years which end about 1896, when 
the first epoch of the United States ended; for after 
Moses the age of man would be the number of years that 
Moses happened to live, which was 120 years; but the 
United States was seven years struggling for indepen- 
dence, so in like manner we may be seven years in resur- 
recting and transfiguring, but many prophecies are point- 
ing to the latter part of 1897 to 1900, for that event. The 
end of 6,000 years came in the year i899,alsothe end of the 
six ages came in that year, because the days were short- 
ened lest all flesh would be destroyed; in proof that the 
time and years were shortened, we repeat the third verse 
of the third chapter of the first book of the Antiquities of 
the Jew, by Flavins Josephus. 



Shortening of the Ages. 

This calamity happened in the sixth hundredth year 
of N'oah's government (age), in the second month, called 
by the Macedonians Dius, but by the Hebrews Marhes- 
ven for so did they order their year in Egypt. B^ut Moses 
appointed that Nisan, which is the same with Xanthicus, 
should be the first month for their festivals, because he 
brought them out of Egypt in that month. So that this 
month began the year as to all the solemnities they ob- 
served to the honor of God, although he preserved the 
original order of the months as to selling and buying, and 
other ordinary affairs. Now he says that this flood began 
on the twenty-seventh (seventeenth) d'ay of the fore- 
mentioned month; and this was two thousand six hun- 
dred and fifty-six (one thousand five hundred and fifty- 
six) years from Adam, the first man ; and the time is writ- 
ten down in our sacred books, those who then lived 
having noted down with great accuracy both the births 
and the deaths of illustrious men. 

The magnitude of the things borne along in the tri- 
umphal procession were so made that they were in three 
and even four stories, one above the other, with many 
resemblances of the war, meaning the present financial 
siege that our country is struggling through; there was 
to be seen in the procession a happy country laid waste, 
and entire squadrons of enemies slain, which means the 
trusts, national banks, along with all those who rule Con- 
gress, the Senate, the President and his administration by 
the power of money, in favor of themselves and to the 
destruction of the whole nation; and in that procession 
were carried the walls of most populous cities that were 
being seized, and an army pouring itself within the walls, 

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328 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

while every place was full of slaughter, and the enemy 
could be seen making supplication when they could no 
longer resist; houses overthrown and falling upon ith&ir 
owners; rivers flowing out of a melancholy desert into 
an uncultivated land, that was not drink for men or cattle, 
but through a land still on fire upon every side. 

And on the top of these pageants was placed the 
commander of the city that was taken and the manner 
of his taking, and a great number of ships followed the 
pageants with other spoils of great plenty; but those 
taken in the Temple of Jerusalem made the greatest figure 
of them all; that is, the golden table the weight of many 
talents, the candle stick of gold, though its construction 
was now changed by its middle shaft being fixed upon 
a base, and its smaller branches being produced from 
the main shaft to an unusual length; thus forming the 
likeness of a trident by their positions. And the last of 
all the spoils was carried the law of the Jews (our financial 
laws), then came the gold and ivory images of victory, 
and Vespasian came marching in the first place; then 
Titus following; then Domitian (son of Vespasian), riding 
upon a horse that was worthy of admii ation. (A horse 
symbolizes a political power.) 

The siege of Jerusalem under the Roman General Titus, 
beginning seventy-one years after Christ, symbolizes our 
present monetary siege seventy-one years after the birth 
of the son of man in the year 1826, which was the Home 
Missionary Society, founded in that year. The labor 
unions, strikers and their leaders, and all who are advo- 
cating an increased currency, the silver factions and the 
great commonalty, symbolize the Romans under Titus, 
who besiege the city and capture it about the eigihth day 
of September, 1899. 

Simon, John and the other factions in the city who 
cut each other's throats generally are those in power, 
aided by the great combination of syndicated wealth who 
have control of the government at the present time. 
Those who are killed in the siege symbolize the number 
of financial failures; those sold into slavery are those who 
are irrecoverably- mortgaged. As the Jews in the city 
fight among themselves and kill more of each other than 



DOUBLE TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION. 329 

are slain by the Romans, so have the money factions be- 
gun to rob each other in the United States, as the large 
corporations have little regard for the smaller institutions. 

About the same time a priest, named Jesus, son of 
Thebuth, obtained his life on condition of surrendering 
some of the treasures of the Temple which he had se- 
cured, two candlesticks, tables, goblets and vessels of 
pure gold, as well as the curtains and the robes of the 
High Priests. Another, who had been one of the treas- 
urers, showed a place where the vests and girdles of the 
priests were concealed, with a great quantity of purple 
and scarlet thread, and an im^mense store of cinnamon, 
cassia and other spices. 

The Jewish war, VI., 8-4. And now were the banks 
finished, on the seventh day of the month Gorpieus (Elul), 
in eighteen days' time, when the Romans brought their 
machines against the wall. Some did not await the con- 
flic*, but crept dov/n into the lower city, others shrunk 
into the subterranean passages, others more manfully en- 
deavored to beat down the engineers. The Romans ad- 
vanced in the pride of victory, the Jews wer weary, famine- 
stricken, disheartened. A breach was speedily made, 
some of the towers fell, the leaders did not display their 
customary valor and conduct; they fled on all sides. 

This one Jesus, the son of Thebuth, is some faction 
which will turn against the great combine and expose the 
secrets of the administration, as the robes of the high 
priests symbolize the power of the President's office; the 
goblets and vessels symbolize bills passed by Congress; 
the girdles of the priests that were concealed are the 
treacherous motives of the present administration to rob 
the commonalty through their power of oi^ce by aiding 
syndicated wealth to grasp all that it may reach after; the 
great quantity of purple and scarlet thread that is con- 
cealed indicates the great number of foreign men and 
institutions that are in league with the present administra- 
tion to enrich themselves at the expense of the nation; for 
example. Rahab the Harlo't left a scarlet cord hanging 
out of her window that it might aid the spies to escape 
from her countrymen. 



The House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents. 

Apocryphal New Testament — Paul and Thecla. 

Thecla, when eighteen years of age, heard the 
Apostle Paul preaching in Iconium and was by him con- 
verted to Christianity, and from Iconium followed Paul 
and endured many hardships and was finally translated 
at the age of ninety, seventy-two years after she left Ico- 
nium. 

The first institution in this country intended for the 
reformation of vicious and criminal children is incorpor- 
ated under the name of the New York House of Refuge 
for Juvenile Delinquents, the founders being John Gris- 
com, Isaac Collins, James W. Gerard and Hugh Maxwell. 
This was the beginning of a policy of caring for juvenile 
offenders that soon spread all over the country until 
nearly every state had its reform school. This system 
sprung from the teachings of Christ and is what is meant 
by the conversion of Thecla. 

Seventy-two years after this, in the year eighteen 
hundred and ninety-seven, she will be translated. By this 
is meant that owing to changed conditions there will be 
no longer any necessity for such institutions as this New 
York Reformatory, founded in 1824, as in the year 1899 
the resurrection of the living, symbolized by the trans- 
figuration on the high mountain, will begin. 

Apocryphal New Testament, Chap. 11-15: "Thus 
suffered that first martyr and the apostle of God, and vir- 
gin, Thecla, who came from Iconium at eighteen years 
of age; afterward, partly in journeys and travels, and 
partly in a monastic life in the cave, she lived seventy-two 
years; so that she was ninety years old when the Lord 
translated her," 

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THE HOUSE OF REFUGE. 331 

A monastic life in the cave for seventy-two years re- 
fers to the Hfe of those who live in reform schools and sim- 
ilar institutions. 

Thecla was a member of a noble family of Iconium, 
in Lyconia, where she was converted by the preaching of 
St. Paul, and having devoted herself to a life of. virginity, 
suffered a series of persecutions from her intended bride- 
groom, as well as by her parents. 

She is styled in the Greek martyrologies, the proto- 
martyress, while in the Roman breviary, she is said to 
have died at the age of 90, in Selencia. 

Clement, 11-17: "The day which is kept sacred to 
her m'emory is the twenty-fourth of September, to the 
glory of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, 
now and for evermore, Amen." 

The day and month in 1824, when the New York 
House of Refuge for juvenile delinquents was founded; 
history gives the year, but as to the day and month, is 
silent. 



Numerals of Josephus. 

By the mysterious numerals of Flavius Josephus we 
find that the ancient city of Jerusalem was taken after a 
long siege and destroyed on the eighth day of the month, 
Gorpius (Elul), in the year seventy-two or three, after 
Christ, by General Titus, a son of the Roman General 
Vespasian. The ancient city of Jerusalem symbolizes our 
present monetary system which will be destroyed seventy- 
two or three years after the birth of the Home Missionary 
Society, which was organized in New York, on the tenth 
dav of (May, 1826. The influence of that society when 
thirty-three years of age, sent John Brown to Harper's 
Ferry, "like a thief in the night." He was taken and cru- 
cified; that same influence arose the third year with great 
power and glory and emancipated millions of slaves. 

The Home .Missionary Society was the second com- 
ing of Chirst, or the coming of the son of man, by send- 
ing Birown to Harper's Ferry, as a thief in the night, 
whose coming was to be, 'Matthew, 24-27: "For as the 
, lightning cometh forth from the east and is seen even unto 
the west; so shall be the coming of the son of man." His 
coming was known from the east to the west by telegraph. 

As to the destruction of Jerusalem, all chroiiologers 
and all historians tell us that the city was destroyed in the 
year seventy, after iChrist; but Jo'sephus in his account of 
the siege, says the temple was set on fire on the twenty- 
seventh day of July, seventy years after Christ ; and the 
city was taken and desolated after a long siege, which 
seems to prolong into the year 1899, as that is seventy- 
three years after the birth of the son of man. The Home 
'Missionary Society is the son ot man, because it sprung 
from this nation. In prophecy a man symbolizes a na- 

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NUMERALS OF JOSEPHUS. 333 

tion. The United States is the man-child, the nation that 
was born in a day, as it is written in Isaiah. 

Isaiah, 66-7: ".Before she travailed she brought forth; 
before berpain came, she was delivered of a man-child." 

Isaiah, 66-8: '^Who hath heard such a thing? Who 
hath seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? 
Shall a nation be brought forth at once? For as soon as 
Zion travailed, she brought forth her children." 

The words of Isaiah prove conclusively that the Uni- 
ted States is symbolized by Zion, as "before she travailed," 
mieans before the war for independence; "before her pai'n 
she was delivered of a man-child," means that we became 
a nation at the Declaration of Independence; then came 
our pains, the war. This nation was born in a day; it 
came into national existence in- day; at once, as soon as 
Zion travailed, she brought forth her children, meaning 
as soon as the Revolutionary War began, the thirteen chil- 
dren were welded into the Union of Zion which symbol- 
izes the United States, the Israel. 



Discovery Impossible Until Literalized. 

'Many will inquire as to the reason why the theories 
advanced in this volume were not discovered many years 
ago. The answer is that it would of been impossible before 
about the present time, for the reason that the miracles 
had not been literalized, or that the creation had not ad- 
vanced far enough until the last twelve years, and perhaps 
not until later than that, as many of the things here ad- 
vanced were not presented to my mind until after 1893, 
while trying as best I could to arrange those miracles that 
had been literalized and by numerical calculation was trac- 
ing the evento that literally constitute David, Solomon, 
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Aaron, Moses, and the Israel, and 
all the intervals of years from one to the other, also the 
antitypical or literal crossing over Jordan, because all 
there ever was literal of that event transpired in the year 
1776 A. D. ; so in like manner did the walls of Jericho fall, 
after the seven times marching around from 1776 to 1783 ; 
further that the signs of the antitypical siege of Jerusalem 
did not make their appearance until 1893, and the anti- 
typical firebrand was not thrown into the golden window 
of the antitypical Jewish temple until the 27th day of July, 
A. D., 1896; in 1895-6 the tower of Babel began to ap- 
proach heaven (United States) and at the same time the 
Ark began to rest in Armenia on Mount Ararat, and the 
youngest son of Noah had just discovered that his father 
was drunken and began to make sport of him, then it was 
that the older sons of Noah took the garment (alliance) 
but kept their faces backward from the horrible sight, 
which was the son of Ham butchering the Armenians. 

The one language of those who built the great tower 
has not yet been confounded. 

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DISCOVERY IMPOSSIBLE. 335 

The United States will be the principal actor in the 
destruction of their one language, as the United States 
is the chief agency of God, 

It has not yet been discovered that they were building 
that great tower with poor building material; they are 
building with slime instead of mortar, and they are using 
brick instead of stone; the epithet Babel will be apphed to 
the tower after the confusion of their one language. 



Tower of Babel. 

The tower of Babel has nothing to do with Babylon, 
yet learned men have often gone to the territory of an- 
cient Babylonia and spent years of labor digging in the 
old heaps of rubbish on the banks of the river Euphrates, 
and they have named one of the many heaps of rubbish 
near the Euphrates Babel. Of course natural instinct 
would enable them to lay claim to the largest heap in 
that region, to be the foundation of their supposed ancient 
tower of Babel. The tower of Babel was never connected 
with ancient Babylon, any more than Poland was with the 
north pole. 

The tower and city that was built on the plains of 
Shiner was not called by the name of Babel until after 
the confusion of their language; as neither seems to have 
been completed, very little is known of them until just be- 
fore their language was broken up. 

There never was a literal city and tower of Babel. 
They have only existed upon the pages of prophecy to 
symbolize the most miraculous city and tower that ever 
was, as they are both in existence, and both are soon to 
be destroyed. 



336 



Rahab, the Harlot. 

Then the multitudes of the mortgaged, and those 
who are otherwise bound will be released, because all for- 
mer values will disappear, as there will not be sufficient 
money to represent a value. By putting to death the aged 
and the infirm denotes the old and worn-out institutions 
that will have nothing of any value to represent them, 
and the rest being driven into the temple, called the 
"Court of the Women," which means the churches, aid 
many in that time of greatest trouble, as women symbolize 
the churches. The Court of the Women was a space 
without the main part of the temiple, and symbolizes the 
same position that the churches occupied in the United 
States of Israel, ever since it was a nation; for example 
see sixth chapter of Joshua, "And Joshua said unto the 
two men that had spied out the land. Go into the harlot's 
house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she 
hath, as ye sware unto her. And the young men, the 
spies, went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, 
and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had, all 
her kindred, also they brought out, and they set them 
without the camp of Israel." Thus showing that the 
chvirches were provided for, but they were set without 
the state, as the union of church and state was never to be 
allowed in the United States ; thus those institutions that 
will be driven into the "Court of the Women" symbolize 
their separation from the government; for example, such 
institutions as national banks will then be set without 
the camp, which means that all such will be divorced 
from the state. The epithet of harlot is applied to the 
churches because the desire of the woman should be to 
her husband, the state, and the great mother church is 
the harlot who has committed fornication with all the 
kings of the earth (Europe). 

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The Arch of Titus. 

There is an arch still standing in the city of Rome 
that was erected in commemoration of the capture and 
destruction of Jerusalem, and in honor of the successful 
generalship of Titus, by the Senate and Roman people. 
Crowning the highest point of the Sacred Way (Summa 
Sacra Via), not only is it the most elegant of all the 
triumphal arches, but also as from its- connection with 
Scripture history it has been justly styled, "one of 
the most interesting ruins in Rome." It consists of a 
single arch of white marble, flanked by a fluted composite 
column. During the pontificate of Pius the VII. it was 
rescued from impending ruin by extensive and judicious 
restorations; which, however, unlike the ancient portions, 
were executed in travertine. The sclupture with which 
it is embellished are of a very elaborate character. 

Those of the frieze represent a procession of warriors 
conducting white bulls or oxen to the sacrificial altar; the 
keystone of the arch is adorned with a spirited figure of a 
Roman warrior. On the attic is the original inscription, 
which is evident from the use of the word divo ("divine"), 
was recorded after the death of Titus, the "delight of the 
human race," and, probably, by his successor Domitian. 
It runs thus: 

: Senatus. Populusque. Romanus. Divo. Tito. : 
: Divi. Vespasiani. F. : 

: Vespasiano. Augusto. : 

The piers under the arch are covered with bas-reliefs 
of remarkable interest. On the one side may be seen a 
body of Roman soldiers bearing the precious spoils from 
the Temple of Jerusalem, among which conspicuously 

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THE ARCH OF TITUS. 339 

shine the golden table, the silver trumpets, and the seven- 
branched candlestick of massive gold, which afterward 
v.-ere thrown into the Tiber from the Milvian Bridge 
during the flight of the Emperor Maxentius, to prevent 
its falling into the hands of the victorious soldiers of Con- 
stantine. "The size of this candlestick, as here repre- 
sented, appears to be nearly a man's height, so that both 
in size and form these bas-reliefs perfectly correspond 
with the description given by Flavins Josephus, and are 
the only authentic representations of these sacred ob- 
jects." 

On the other side we see the Imperator himself, 
crowned by the goddess of Victory, seated in his tri- 
umphal quadriga, or chariot, drawn by four horses, with 
the lictors bearing their laurel-wreathed fasces before 
him, and around him soldiers and citizens, cheering tu- 
multuously, and waving boughs of laurel. The vaulted 
roof of the arch is richly ornamented with sunk panels 
and roses, while a central bas-relief is devoted to the 
apotheosis of Titus. 

The length of the arch is forty-nine feet, its breadth 
sixteen feet six inches, its height is equal to its length. 
The width of its passage, or opening, is nineteen feet. 
Above the entablature rises an attic, twelve feet in height. 
The arch is semicircular, and springs from a horizontal 
molding, called the impost, which crosses the front of the 
building at about twenty-two feet from the ground. The 
height of the composite marble columns on either side 
of the opening is 22.065 feet, and they stand upon ped- 
estals nine feet high. 

Besides the arch of Titus in Rome there is little known 
about the Jewish Wars' of Vespasian, his two sons, Titus 
and Domitian, excepting in the sacred prophecies of 
Flavius Josephus. A single glance at the description Jo- 
sephus gives of their triumphal procession shows that it 
must have been miraculous; or simply the description of 
a miraculous one to symbolize a literal one of gigantic 
proportions; and that literal one is already forming its 
ranks for the great triumphal march; then all things 
which Josephus has portrayed in the triumph of Vespasian 
and Titus, will be literal and can be seen by all those of 



340 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

ordinary understanding; quite a conspicuous part of the 
procession has already taken up its Hne of march, which 
are the houses falhng upon their owners. 

Titus had captured Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, 
slaughtered many of the Jews, scattered abroad nearly all 
that had escaped alive, returned to Rome, joined his father 
and entered the city with a great triumphal procession; 
not a miraculous procession as Flavins Josephus describes 
it to have been ;yet Josephus was a divine writer and one of 
the greatest, as his works are the greatest among the 
Scriptures; hence we will not venture to question his au- 
thority to use miraculous descriptions in whatsoever mag- 
nitude we may find them symbolizing the things which so 
much concern the human family, especially those of the 
United States; for in like manner God created the heaven 
and the earth in six days (six ages), 6,000 years (which 
years have been shortened and will end between 1893 ^^'^ 
1901) by a miraculous description of the creation, which 
creation began literally ito appear with the birth of Christ, 
and continues until all things are created in the heaven and 
earth (United States, Europe). 

Without that miraculous description in Genesis 
there would have been no heaven or earth, because they 
are both built upon Christianity. Christ himself was one 
of the greatest miracles, and he came into the world that 
all the world (Europe) might be saved; but he says to his 
Disciples, "I go to prepare a place for you;" hence the 
United States is pointed to, and it, and the things pertain- 
ing to it, are symbolized by many miracles; and the Uni- 
ted States is the miracle of miracles; the prophecies were 
written for the tim^es and the people of our era; because 
Christ said he came not to destroy the prophecies, but 
to fulfill them; consequently there are yet many to be ful- 
filled; also he said, "I come not for peace, but a sword." 
All important reforms since Christ have been established 
by the sword, and his people, of the United States, were 
born with a sword in their hands. 

When General Titus departed for Rome at the end of 
the siege, Judaea and Jerusalem was a desolation, and it 
has never again been recognized as one of the nations of 
the world; its royal house was extinguished; its high 



OUR GREAT IDOL. 341 

priesthood was no more; and of the temple, there was 
not one stone left upon another. 

The Jews lost their center of unity, and now they can 
only be traced by a scattered people throughout all regions 
of the globe. As Jerusalem was desolated and the temple 
of the Jews destroyed about seventy-two or seventy-three 
years after the birth of Christ, so will plutocracy be deso- 
lated and its centralized itemple be destroyed in the exact 
number of years after 1826. The son of man was born in 
1826, but the exact time when Christ was born has not yet 
been established to a certainty; therefore we cannot estab- 
lish the exact date of the overthrow of plutocracy. After 
their downfall the Jews revived somewhat and caused the 
Romans some trouble, but were short-lived; so will the 
power of money revive again, but like its prototype, the 
Jews, will be easily subdued; as their high priesthood dis- 
appeared, so will the present kingly power of our Presi- 
dents be no more; like the Jews, (plutocracy will lose its 
center of unity and prest'ge forever. 

Did God create man to dig gold from the ground at so 
fearful a cost? and then to idolize it above all things, 
even to the sacrifice of his life? Compared to our great 
idol of gold, all the idols of antiquity are as 
nothing; the red-hot iron arms of their ancient 
god, Molech, would be icy-cold compared to our god, 
Mammon. Were the voice of the prophets only directed 
toward those incipient times and nations of antiquity, 
Vv^hose ido'ls were dolls in comparison to ours? Remember 
that we are the "Ancient of Days," with throne ot fiery 
flames; with wheels of burning fire. 



(Without end.) 



SYMBOLISMS. 

SOME OF THE SYMBOLISMS OF THE SCRIPTURES. 

Raphael — The chief angel — which is the United States, 
and the chief agency of the Almighty. 

Michael — Chief angel — the United States. 

Gabriel — United States — Chief angel — chief agency. 

The Earth — Europe — the old Roman territory. 

The World — The territory occupied by the old Roman 
world or earth, now called Europe. 

Adam — The first nation after Christ. 

Eve — The first church after Christ. 

Eve — The mother of all living. 

The Forbidden Tree — The marriage of church and state. 

The Serpent — Monarchy. 

Satan — Monarchy. 

Devil — Monarchy. 

Dragon — Monarchy. 

Waters — Politics. 

The Great Deep — The great politics of nations. 

The Voice of Many Waters — The politics of many na- 
tions. 

An Angel — An agency. 

An Archangel — Chief agency. 

Beast — Despotic and fanatical nation. 

Man — Nation. 

Woman — Church. 

Divided Waters — Political divisions. 

Waters Standing up in a Heap — The alliance of several 
nations for the same political purpose. 

Ark — Covenant, constitution, alliance. 

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Garment — A governing constitution. 

White Garment — A pure constitution. 

Lake — A political body. 

Lake of Fire — A corrupt political body. 

Lake of Fire and Brimstone — Used by the prophets to 

symbolize war after the invention of gunpowder. 
Hell-Fire — The lowest kind of corruption. 
Sea — Universal politics. 
River — Progressive and aggressive people. 
The Great City — Earth, world or Europe. 
Circumcision — Naturalization. 
Chosen Horseman — A great politician. 
Ship — Political party. 
Vessels — Bills enacted by Congress. 
Soldier — Political voter. 

The Ancient of Days — The United States with the ancient 

democracy of Moses. 
Fish — An overwhelming political party. 
Crossing Over Jordan — Political change. 
Burnt Offerings — Money expended to defray expenses of 

the Government. 
Heaven — United States, which is Israel. 
Hell — The lowest and most corrupt. 

Earthquake — Financial and political panics in Europe — 

Earth. 
Sun — A presiding officer. 
Moon — Vice presiding officer. 
Stars — Minor Government officers. 
Clouds of Heaven — Trouble threatening the United 

States. 

Trumpets — World-wide signals. 

Cloud — Harbinger of trouble. 

A White Cloud — Harbinger of peace and plenty. 

Night — Famine of food, water or money. 

Moses — Democracy. 



344 SYMBOLISMS. 

Mother — First church. 

A Day — Twenty-four hours, one year or one thousand 

years. 
Walls — Permanent constitutional laws. 
Sons — Young States or young institutions. 
Harlot — Church united to the state. 

Mother of Harlots — The first and great Roman Catholic 

church. 
The epithet Harlot is applied to the churches that have 

committed fornication by their several unions with 

the nations of the globe. 

Mountain — A great civil government. 
My Mountain — Israel or the United States. 
Jerusalem — Monetary system of civilization. 
New Jerusalem — The monetary system of the United 
States after the resurrection and transfiguration. 

New Heaven — United States transfigured. 

New Earth — Europe after its resurrection. 

Grass — Common people. 

Trees — Persons holding office. 

Fir Trees — Great persons of title and wealtTi. 

Children — Young States or institutions. 

Wilderness — Political uncertainty. 

Desert — Defeated political party. 

The Cleansing Blood of Christ — Bloody w^ar that washes 

out iniquities. 
Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son^-Out of monarchy 

have I called my people. 
The Great Deluge Upon the Earth — The great political 

combine of European nations. 
Tower of Babel — The alliance of European nations. 
Michael and His Angels — The United States and its 

agencies. 
The Dragon and His Angels — Monarchy and its agencies. 
War in Heaven — War in United States. 
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Monarchy was hurled out of the United States in 
1776-1783. 

Swine — All who trample upon the pearls of Scripture. 

Jesus Walked Upon the Waters — Christ will prevail over 
our body politic. 

Feast of Tabernacles — Our general elections. 

Second Adam — Jesus Christ. 

Jesus Christ — Democracy of Moses. 

Jesus Christ — United States of Israel. 

Why Will the United States Be Resurrected and Trans- 
figured? — Because Christ was transfigured and res- 
urrected. 

Resurrection Will Come Between 1896 and 1899 — The 
life of man was to be 120 years after Moses, because 
Josephus says the life of man would be the number 
of years that Moses happened to live. 

Why Will the United States Be Resurrected Between 
1896 and 1899? — Because the United States died 
when 120 years of age. As Christ was resurrected 
in three days so will the United States be resur- 
rected in three days — years. 

Burnt Offerings — Money collected to defray the expenses 
of a government. For example, as soon as Joshua 
passed over Jordan he built an altar and ofifered 
burnt offerings; in the year 1776 that was the first 
after the Declaration of Independence. 

Hosea 7-5: "On the day of our King the Princes made 
themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched 
outhishandwithscorners" — This is the administra- 
tion of our twenty-fourth elder — president. He 
will raise his hand with scorners, thus scorning the 
request of the people. 

Hosea 10-15: "At daybreak shall the King of Israel be 
utterly cut ofif" — At the dawn of the resurrection our 
King — President — will lose his kingly power, be- 
cause he is our twenty-fourth elder — President. 
Rev. 1 1-16: "And the four and twenty elders, which 
sat before God on their thrones, fell upon their 
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346 SYMBOLISMS. 

thanks, O Lord God, the x^lmighty, which art and 
which wast; because Thou hast taken the great 
power." 

The life of Flavins Josephus, or his autobiography which 
he gives before proceeding with his "History of 
the Jewish War," containing the interval of two 
hundred forty-one years and seven months — The 
autobiography of Flavins Josephus is a symbolical 
biography of the United States. One can see 
throughout all the works of Flavins Josephus that 
he, himself, symbolizes our United States Treas- 
ury, and though he lived nearly 2,000 years ago, he 
was an American historian. 

Rev. 8-1: "And when he opened the seventh seal, there 
followed a silence in heaven about the space of half 
an hour." — Our present famished finances will 
cause this silence in heaven — United States — for 
about seven days. This silence will consist of a 
cessation of the powers that be in the United States 
for about the space of one week. 

Hosea 6-2: "After two days will he revive us; on the 
third day will he raise us up, and we shall live be- 
fore him." — This present financial famine was sym- 
bolized by the siege of ancient Jerusalem seventy 
and seventy-one years after Christ, which lasted 
about the space of three years. In like manner 
will our present financial system be destroyed sev- 
enty, seventy-one or seventy-two years after the 
birth of the Home Missionary Society in 1826. 

Zeph. 3-15: "The Lord hath taken away thy judgments; 
he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, 
even the Lord, is in the midst of thee." — Our twen- 
ty-fourth President will be shorn of his kingly 
power, even before his administration is ended. 

Micah 5-5: "Now shaft thou gather thyself in troops, O 
daughter of troops; he hath laid siege against us; 
they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon 
the cheek." — The present administration of Mc- 
Kinley, our twenty-fourth elder, will continue to 
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ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 347 

graded and covered with shame by the daughter 
of troops, which symboHzes the power of conven- 
tions, or any kind of a congress. 

The Son of Man — Home Missionary Society, organized 
May lo, 1826, re-enforced by the aboUtion and 
kindred societies, caused John Brown to attack 
Harper's Ferry in the year 1859 hke a thief in the 
night, as predicted by the prophets. 

Job — United States. 

Satan Afflicting Job— Monarchy afflicting the United 
States in days of the Lord's preparation, these 
afflictions being brought on by adopting the insti- 
tutions of monarchy. 

The HeaHng of Job^ — Every man gave him a piece of 
money, and he had twice as much as before — The 
heaUng of Job symbolized our financial and politi- 
cal resurrection, after which all nations are to be 
commercially obliged to contribute to our national 
wealth. 

They shall cast their silver in the streets and their gold 
shall grow dim — Our silver is degraded and cast 
into the streets, and our gold is rapidly passing out 
of the reach of the great majority. 

The mother was dashed in pieces upon her children — 
The power of the older States will be dashed in 
pieces upon the newer, or Western, States. 

They shall say, alas! alas! in. all the highways — At the 
- present time we are hearing this alas ! alas ! upon all 
our streets and highways, as the people meet and 
tell their tale of woe. 

The songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day — 
In our Congress and Senate to-day many from the 
great producing West are howling for reforms, 
while those from the manufacturing and banking 
States are singing the songs of the Dragon, Satan 
and Devil, which favors monarchical institutions. 

Gabriel's trumpet, the last trumpet, or the last trump, of 
God — Will be sounded by the United States, by its 



34^ SYMBOLISMS. 

enactments, which will paralyze the financial world 
and cause the resurrection. 
Gilgal — Liberty. 

Abraham — Robert Bruce, the great champion of Scottish 
freedom. 

Abraham come into Canaan — Robert Bruce was crowned 
King of Scotland, at Scone, by the barons, and laid 
the foundation of Scottish freedom. 

Jacob removes down into Egypt — The Council Sorbonne, 
in Paris, under the influence of the French mon- 
arch, and the Diet of Worms, Charles the Fifth pre- 
siding, ordered flames instead of reasoning for 
Martin Luther, and he was excommunicated and 
his writings were condemned to be burned, and 
himself to be seized and brought to punishment. 

Solomon and his great Empire — -Charlemagne and his 
great Empire. 

Cyrus the King — The great council that was called and 
met at Oxford, June the nth, 1258 A. D. 

Continual burnt offerings taken away — The union of 
church and state, when a part of the state revenue 
is appropriated for the support of the church. 

The abomination that maketh desolate set up— It was set 
up in 1893, the beginning of the Cleveland admin- 
istration. 

The Ark rested on Mount Ararat, the highest altitude in 
the old Roman earth — Noah and his three sons will 
come out of the Ark (which are the alliances of 
Europe) when the iniquities of European monarchy 
reaches its crowning height. Then the great city 
will be broken into three parts, which are sym- 
bolized by the three sons of Noah. 
Acts 13-41: "Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and 
perish because I work a work in your days, a work which 
ye will not believe though one should fully declare it to 
you." 

Hosea 12-10: "I have also spoken unto the proph- 
ets, and I have multiplied visions ; and by the ministry of 
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ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 349 

Antiquities of the Jews — Book 7, Chapter 3, Verse 2: 
"It was David, therefore, who first cast the Jebusites out 
of Jerusalem, and called it by his own name, the City of 
David; for under our forefather Abraham, it was called 
(Salem or) Solyma; but after that time some say that 
Homer mentions it by that name of Solyma (for he named 
the temple Solyma, according to the Hebrew language, 
which denotes security)." 

We give the above in proof that all wisdom is sacred 
and is from God, and that a great portion of the writings — 
histories of antiquity — are prophecies ; also they have cre- 
ated all things that are political, financial and sacred; that 
sacred learning began and was in process before the days 
of letters, even before and in the days of Homer. 
Josephus, who is one of the most important and one of 
the most sacred historians and prophets — Josephus has 
written the financial and political history of the United 
States so elaborately that it seems to be miraculous, but 
the most marvelous about Josephus is that he symbolizes 
our United States Treasury from the year 1840 A. D. The 
works of Homer are sacred or Josephus would not have 
lUentioned his name. 

Joshua 6-23: "And Joshua said unto the two men 
that had spied out the land, Go unto the harlot's house and 
bring out thence the w^oman (church) and all that she 
hath, as ye swore unto her." 

"And Rahab the harlot and all her kindred they 
brought out. And thev set them without the camp of 
Israel." 

The harlot and her kindred, which means the great 
Catholic church and all other churches which are her 
relatives, and the United States has protected them and 
allowed them all privileges except marriage with the 
state; hence they were set without the camp of Israel 
(United States). The appellation of harlot to the church — 
woman — Rahab — is applied to her because of her fornica- 
tion with many nations, as it has continually beqn her de- 
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350 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

The miracles of mythology symbolize some of the 
great .events of the future, the sam^e as the miracles of the 
Scriptures; they record the murder of the companions 
of Cadmus by the dragon (monarchy), and the transfor- 
mation of Atlas (republic) into a great mountain (great 
civil government). The mysteries of mythology that il- 
lustrate the events of antiquity are symbols to illustrate 
the events of the future; they extend from Chaos to the 
apotheosis of Caesar. 

l^hc Creation of Chrisfs Kingdom — Deucalion and 
Pyi-rha. 

Say, O Themis, say, how to the world mankind shall 
be restored; and grant, most merciful, in our distress, thy 
potent aid. The goddess heard their words, and instant 
gave reply. The temple leave, ungird your garments, 
veil your heads, and throw behind your backs your mighty 
mother's bones. * * * At length Deucalion soothed 
his wife with words of cheering import: Right, if I di- 
vine, no impious deed the deity desires. Earth is our 
mighty mother, and her bones the stony monarchy within 
her; these behind our backs to cast, the oracle commands. 
* * * And brief the change, the stones Deucalion 
threw. A manly (national) shape assumed; but females 
(churches) sprung from those by Pyrrha cast behind; and 
hence a patient, hardy, laborious race we prove, and show 
the source, by actions, whence we sprung. 

The Metamorphoses of Ptiblius Ovidus Naso- — Ovid. 
His transformations symbolize the evolution and pro- 
gression of the Creation since Christ. 

The chariot with which Phaeton will burn up Europe. 
Of gold the axles shone; the pole of gold; by gold ihe 
rolling wheels were circled; every spoke with silver 
bright; upon the seat bright crysolites displayed, with 
various jewels shed a dazzling light, from the sun (United 
States) reflected. All the high-souled youth admired 
and while he curious viewed each part, behold Aurora 
from the purple east, wide throws the ruby portals, and 
displays the halls with roses strewn; the starry host fly, 
driven by Lucifer — himself the last to quit his heavenly 
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SYMBOLISMS. 35i 

Luna's horns blunt and prepared to vanish. Straight he 
bade the flying- hours to yoke the steeds ; his words the 
nimble goddesses obeyed and led the steeds fire-breathing 
from their lofty stalls Ambrosia fed. 

Spare, O boy! the lash, but tightly grasp the reins — 
not through the five bright zones thy journey lies. _ Ob- 
liquely winds the path, with spacious curve, three girdles 
only touching; leaving far the pole Antarctic, and the 
Northern Bear; the frozen polar snake; * * * figures 
huge of beasts ferocious. Heaven a spot contains where 
Scorpio bends in two wide bows his arms, his tail, and 
doubly stretching claws; the space encompassing of two 
celestial signs. Soon as Phaeton the monstrous beast be- 
held, black poison sweating, and with crooked sting 
threatening fierce wounds, he nervelessly drops the reins; 
quick the steeds perceive the loose thongs playing on their 
backs, and rushed wide from the path, unchecked, through 
regions strange, now here, now there, impetuous, unre- 
strained. 

Amidst the loftiest stars they dash, and drag the car 
through pathless places; upward now they labor; head- 
long now they down descend, nearing the earth. With 
wonder Luna sees her brother's coursers run beneath her 
own; and sees the burnt clouds smoking. Lofty points 
of Earth feel first the flames, and fissures wide, departing 
moisture prove. The forage green, whitens; trees crackle 
with their burning leaves; and ripe corn adds its fuel to 
the blaze. But these are trivial ills ; whole cities burn, and 
peopled kingdoms into ashes turn. 

Kingdoms kindle as the car draws near; even Russia, 
through her hoary regions, will be warmed; yet with all 
her native frost will be armed. Covered with flames, the 
towering Apennine, and Caucasus, and proud Olympus 
shine, and where 'the long-extended Allps aspire will stand 
a. huge continued range of fire. Astonished Phaeton, 
where ere his eyes will turn, beholds the nations around 
him burn; Europe will be in a blaze; nor can he bear the 
sultry vapors, and the scorching air. which fronr below, 
as from a furnace flue, when the golden axle beneath him 
begins to glow. 

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352 ANCIENT OF DAYS RENEWED. 

der, that unwearied stays through many windings, smokes 
in every maze. From his loved Babylon, Euphrates flies. 
The big-swollen 'Ganges and the Danube dries. No more 
the Rhine or Rhone their courses maintain; nor Tiber, 
of Jiis'pro'mised empire vain. The ground, deep cleft, ad- 
rrits a dazzling ray, and -startles old Pluto, who turns 
away. The seas shrink in, and to the sight disclose, wide 
naked 'plains, where once the billows rose; the politicians 
in shoals about the bottom creep; nor longer dare in their 
crookedness to leap. Gasping for breath, snobbish no- 
bility W'il'l die, and on the political waves extended lie. 

The Devil, Satan, serpent, monarchy, are all one. 
Seek out the lasit recesses of their main. Beneath un- 
fathomable depths they faint, and secret in their gloomy 
palaces pant. Thrice above the waves will monarchy up- 
hold his face, and thrice will the flames be repellent. 
Europe at length on every side will be embraced, and 
scalding seas float around her waist, until the resurrec- 
tion of her dead, nations; and she puts on a republic's 
dress. 

At the time of writing Phaeton is near to mount the 
golden chariot of the Sun, and grasp the reins over the 
fiery four abreast, whose awful plunge was prophesied by 
Ovid in his sacred Metamorphoses, about the time of 
Christ. 



